Darwin’s theory of "survival of the fittest"
originally referred to natural selection in biological systems, but new
research from Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University
scientists shows that this evolutionary theory also applies to technological
systems.
Computational biologist Sergei Maslov, a research staff
member in Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), holding appointments with Stony
Brook University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and Laufer Center for
Physical and Quantitative Biology, worked with Tin Yau Pang, a graduate student
in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook, to compare the
frequency with which components “survive” in two complex systems: bacterial
genomes and operating systems on Linux computers.