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PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004829
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资金
- NSF [1453549]
- ANR Creadapt project [ANR-12-JS03-0009]
- European Research Council (ERC) under European Union [637972]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [1453549] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) [637972] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-12-JS03-0009] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Hierarchical organization-the recursive composition of sub-modules-is ubiquitous in biological networks, including neural, metabolic, ecological, and genetic regulatory networks, and in human-made systems, such as large organizations and the Internet. To date, most research on hierarchy in networks has been limited to quantifying this property. However, an open, important question in evolutionary biology is why hierarchical organization evolves in the first place. It has recently been shown that modularity evolves because of the presence of a cost for network connections. Here we investigate whether such connection costs also tend to cause a hierarchical organization of such modules. In computational simulations, we find that networks without a connection cost do not evolve to be hierarchical, even when the task has a hierarchical structure. However, with a connection cost, networks evolve to be both modular and hierarchical, and these networks exhibit higher overall performance and evolvability (i.e. faster adaptation to new environments). Additional analyses confirm that hierarchy independently improves adaptability after controlling for modularity. Overall, our results suggest that the same force-the cost of connections-promotes the evolution of both hierarchy and modularity, and that these properties are important drivers of network performance and adaptability. In addition to shedding light on the emergence of hierarchy across the many domains in which it appears, these findings will also accelerate future research into evolving more complex, intelligent computational brains in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics.
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