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« on: September 03, 2006, 01:48:07 AM »
This is all tenatative as I have yet discuss it with my advisor or biology teacher:
I wanted to set up an environment where mutuations within the (selfish) organism would result in a mutually benificial relationship between two organisms in the environment. This would be an attempt to see whether the theory that mitochondria, ribosomes, and other cellular components actually formed from seperate entities but are so well blended today that we can't really tell the difference. And hopefully somewhere along the line develope an ESS.
I read in The Selfish Gene that an organism ceases to become parasitic when it shares the same replication process as the host. I'm not sure if this is Richard Dawkins origonal idea but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say.
Thanks a bunch
EDIT:
After thinking it through I believe this might be a simpler solution:
This would require a set of 3 variations of a 'species' (and possibly one control). One set would operate like this: (tit-for-tat) I feed someone when they need it, if they don't feed me when I need it they get blacklisted. Another: (Cooperative) I feed whoever needs it, regardless if they havn't helped me. Another: (Parasitic) I take help whenever I need it but never give help. I have the feeling I'm forgetting something...