Self-organized Criticality in Living Systems
We suggest that ensembles of self-replicating entities such as biological
systems naturally evolve into a self-organized critical state in which
fluctuations, as well as waiting times between phase transitions ("epochs"),
are distributed according to a 1/f power law. We demonstrate these
concepts by analyzing a population of coexisting self-replicating strings
(segments of computer code) subject to mutation and survival of the fittest.
Click here to download the .tar.gz file