Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems¶
Wagner, A. (2005). Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems. Princeton University Press.
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Primes¶
- Functional Redundancy (Degeneracy)
- Wagner (2005) develops this argument at length in Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems, showing that biology's degeneracy and engineering's N-version programming exploit the same distinction: structural diversity simultaneously buys robustness against shared faults and an evolutionary substrate for innovation.
This sourceArgues structural diversity among functionally overlapping elements yields both robustness against shared faults and a substrate for evolutionary innovation; supports the claim that biology's degeneracy and engineering's N-version programming exploit the same structural-diversity distinction.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The publisher's description of Wagner (2005) supports only the robustness-enhances-innovation thesis; it never mentions degeneracy, shared faults, or N-version programming.
“Such robustness, he argues, also enhances the potential for future evolutionary innovation.”
- Wagner (2005) develops this argument at length in Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems, showing that biology's degeneracy and engineering's N-version programming exploit the same distinction: structural diversity simultaneously buys robustness against shared faults and an evolutionary substrate for innovation.
- Robustness
- Robustness is not the same as Redundancy (#287)
This sourceDevelops the argument that structural diversity among functionally redundant elements simultaneously buys robustness against shared faults and an evolutionary substrate for innovation; central reference for distinguishing degeneracy from pure replication.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The publisher description of Wagner's book states he argues robustness has less to do with redundant spare parts and more to do with mutations that leave fitness unaffected, separating the property from the redundancy theory.
“Wagner also argues that robustness has less to do with organisms having plenty of spare parts (the redundancy theory that has been popular) and more to do with the reality that mutations can change organisms in ways that do not substantively affect their fitness.”
- Robustness is not the same as Redundancy (#287)
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