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From: andrewt@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Tuson)
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Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 11:46:39 GMT
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Hi,

In article <1995May12.201406.7619@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> trin0008@sable.ox.ac.uk (Rick Heylen) writes:

>I am working on this topic at the moment (but slowly). My hypothesis is that
>speciation in the natural world occurs due to adaption to local environments
>(ie specialisation) and consequent loss of compatability with other creatures
>with the same ancestors.
>Any ideas how different species arrise?

Speciation by sexual selection could quite interesting to examine. There`s
lots on this in the biological literature. As for GAs there`s a (good IMHO)
paper be Dr Miller from Sussex Univ. in the proceedings of the AISB94
Evolutionary Computation Workshop [Rick - I might be able to help you find a
copy in Oxford, mail me to find out how].

Have Fun!

-- 
Andrew Tuson (andrewt@aisb.ed.ac.uk)

Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
DAI MScs: We never sleep - we would like to but the workload is so high...:-)
