replicators

Primitive evolving replicators is an important empirical confirmation.

Another Perspective on Origins 2007

So-called replicators, often designed by academics and investment bankers, are based on the idea that most of hedge funds 'performance comes not from manager skill or even luck, but from the underlying direction in the market or from trading strategies that can be replicated synthetically, without the need for a human's intuition or judgment.

Replicator hedge funds 2008

Thus, to create enough assemblers to build consumer goods, scientists will have to develop yet another class of nonomachines called replicators for this purpose.

SPEECH DELIVERED BY NQABA NGCOBO - ANC MP DURING THE DEBATE ON THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS 2003

Nevertheless, as group selection entered its dark age, the concept of genes as "replicators" and "the fundamental unit of selection" became regarded as a drop-dead argument against group selection.

David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection X: Na��ve Gene Selectionism 2009

If sexually reproducing individuals are not "replicators" and "units of selection," then what are they?

David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection X: Na��ve Gene Selectionism 2009

DNA synthesizers can use the genetic information of BioBricks to create new DNA -- the idea is akin to the "replicators" from Star Trek that caused food to appear on command -- but today's machines are rudimentary; they work slowly and create only a small amount of DNA.

GOOD Magazine: Designer Genes: How Drew Endy Uses Uses DNA To Make New And Improved Versions Of Life 2008

If culture was to evolve, on this view, there had to be cultural "replicators", or entities whose differential replication in culture constituted the cultural evolutionary process.

Evolutionary Epistemology Bradie, Michael 2008

By the way, I am certainly not merely postulating the phenomenon of Self-Replicating Space-Cells, nor am I a priori presuming that there should be any kind of replicators nor any other biological analogies.

Against Bounces Sean 2007

It could be seen as a general representation of biological "replicators" like a species or a specific gene.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

It could be seen as a general representation of biological "replicators" like a species or a specific gene.

Umbrella. 2004