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From: Eco-evolutionary dynamics, coding structure and the information threshold

Figure 4

Initial and Final Coding Length for Different Mutation Rates. A decrease in initial coding length under higher mutation rates is observed. Restructuring of initial solutions after prolonged evolution also decreases length. For each mutation rate 25 simulations are run. The length distributions under different mutation rates are shown for (a) first evolved individual base solutions and (b) most compact individual based solution 250 generations later, for the target with minimal coding length 13; (c) first evolved individual based solutions and (d) most compact individual based solution 250 generations later, for the target with minimal coding length 19. Note that some first evolved solutions are lost from the population after prolonged evolution due to the information threshold (for example the solution found for the longest target with μ = 0.095 in (c) is lost in (d)).

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