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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Evol Biol. 2017 Jan 25;30(4):750–761. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13039

Figure 1. Anatomy of an Avidian.

Figure 1

Within populations (below), each individual organism (top) possesses a circular genome of instructions, which are executed on “virtual computer hardware” to produce that individual’s phenotype. Organisms compete for resources and space in their environment by completing logic tasks and can produce and excrete products into their surrounding environment.