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A simulation of evolved autotrophic reproduction

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In this experiment we evolve reproductive behaviors for a simulated vehicle. Future work will employ the resulting behaviors to populate a simulated ecosystem.

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              GECCO '07: Proceedings of the 9th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
              July 2007
              1450 pages
              ISBN:9781595936981
              DOI:10.1145/1274000

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