Analysis and Effects of Generative Entrenchment in Complex Systems

实体的生成性防御是衡量生成系统在多大程度上取决于该实体的存在或活动。研究表明，具有较高繁殖防御程度的实体在这类系统的进化变化中往往更为保守。包含生殖堑壕效应的复杂结构模型已经证明了它们在分析和解释各种发育和进化现象方面的相关性。文萨特博士和杰弗里·尚克先生将扩展先前对各种案例和问题的模拟和分析，以及对基因控制网络进化的一些结果的调查，不仅扩展他们自己的工作，还扩展S. a .考夫曼和其他人的工作，以调查不同程度的生殖壕沟对这些网络的行为及其进化的影响。由于几乎任何系统在其组成部分和活动之间都表现出不同程度的生殖堑沟，因此这些研究和结果还具有广泛的潜在应用前景，可用于对发育程序的理论、模拟和实验分析及其对进化、宏观进化变化、先天习得的区别及其在语言学和认知心理学中的应用，发展限制，以及对复杂适应和科学变化的进化的限制。

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.