Exploring the costs of phenotypic plasticity for evolvable digital organisms.

ABSTRACT: Phenotypic plasticity is usually defined as a property of individual genotypes to produce different phenotypes when exposed to different environmental conditions. While the benefits of plasticity for adaptation are well established, the costs associated with plasticity remain somewhat obscure. Understanding both why and how these costs arise could help us explain and predict the behavior of living creatures as well as allow the design of more adaptable robotic systems. One of the challenges of conducting such investigations concerns the difficulty of isolating the effects of different types of costs and the lack of control over environmental conditions. The present study addresses these challenges by using virtual worlds (software) to investigate the environmentally regulated phenotypic pl

SUBMITTER: Miras K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10761833 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature