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The fractal protein is a new concept for improving evolvability, scalability, exploitability and providing a rich medium for evolution. Here the idea of fractal proteins is introduced, and a series of experiments showing how evolution can design and exploit them within gene regulatory networks is described.
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Bentley, P.J. (2003). Evolving Fractal Proteins. In: Tyrrell, A.M., Haddow, P.C., Torresen, J. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2606. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36553-2_8
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