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Annual Reviews of Heat Transfer

ISSN 1049-0787

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Year 2005

617 pages

Volume price - $141.00

PRINCIPLES OF ENERGY CONSERVATION IN EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS ANALYSIS

Philippos Tsourkas
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 6124a Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Boris Rubinsky
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 6124a Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

ABSTRACT

The use of concepts from evolutionary genetics in the solution of optimization problems, widely known as evolutionary computing, is a well-known and nowadays mature field. Recently, evolutionary computing has also been successfully applied to the solution of boundary value problems in engineering, namely, heat conduction problems. Here, we present an extension of that work in which the reverse is attempted: Evolutionary computing methodology is used in conjunction with concepts of energy conservation in order to study Darwinian evolution itself. The motivation and methodology are presented in the first section of the paper, while a particularly interesting and controversial problem, namely, the introduction of transgenic organisms into the wild, is discussed in the second part.