Can Darwin's Natural Selection Alone Explain the Origin of Species? An Information‑Theory and Computer‑Science Perspective

Ahmed Al-Imam; Riccardo Lora; Sinan Subhi Farhan

doi:10.54133/ajms.v10i1.2726

Authors

Ahmed Al-Imam Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq; Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1846-9424
Riccardo Lora Section of Pharmacology, Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, 37134 Verona, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7046-5397
Sinan Subhi Farhan Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4759-219X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54133/ajms.v10i1.2726

Keywords:

Biological evolution, Gene regulatory networks , Information entropy , Semantic versioning , Spaghetti code

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