Analysis and Effects of Generative Entrenchment in Complex Systems

一个实体的生成性防御是衡量一个实体 所生成的系统取决于 实体 已经证明，具有更高学位的实体 的生成性防御倾向于更保守， 这些系统的进化变化。 复杂结构模型 结合生殖防御的影响， 证明了他们在分析和解释各种 发展和进化的现象。 Wimsatt博士和先生。 Jeffrey Shank将扩展先前的模拟和分析， 对案件和问题的调查以及对 基因控制网络的进化，不仅扩展了它们自己的 工作，但S。A.考夫曼和其他人调查了 不同程度的生成性防御对 这些网络的行为及其演变。 因为几乎任何 系统表现出不同程度的生成性防御， 其部分和活动，这些研究和结果，此外， 广泛的潜在应用的理论，模拟， 发展项目的实验分析及其 对进化的意义，宏观进化变化， 先天获得的区别和利用它的调查， 语言学和认知心理学，发展限制， 制约复杂适应和科学的进化 变化

The generative entrenchment of an entity is a measure of how much of the generated system depends upon the presence or activity of that entity. It has been demonstrated that entities with higher degrees of generative entrenchment tend to be more conservative in evolutionary changes of such systems. Models of complex structures incorporating the effects of generative entrenchment have demonstrated their relevance in analyzing and explaining a variety of developmental and evolutionary phenomena. Dr. Wimsatt and Mr. Jeffrey Shank will extend prior simulations and analyses of a variety of cases and problems and investigations of a number of results on the evolution of gene control networks, extending not only their own work but that of S. A. Kauffman and others to investigate the influence of different degrees of generative entrenchment on the behavior of these networks and their evolution. Since virtually any system exhibits differential degrees of generative entrenchment among its parts and activities, these studies and results have in addition broad potential application for theoretical, simulation, and experimental analyses of developmental programs and their significance for evolution, macroevolutionary change, the innate-acquired distinction and investigations using it in linguistics and cognitive psychology, developmental constraints, and constraints on the evolution of complex adaptations and scientific change.