@InProceedings{Doty04,
  title =   "Non-local Evolutionary Adaptation in Gridplants",
  author =  "David Doty",
  pages =   "1602--1609",
  booktitle =   "Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
         Computation",
  year =    "2004",
  publisher =   "IEEE Press",
  month =   "20-23 " # jun,
  address = "Portland, Oregon",
  ISBN =    "0-7803-8515-2",
  keywords =    "Coevolution \& collective behavior",
  abstract =    "A simulated model of 2-D plant growth and evolution
         was studied. This paper tested the hypothesis that the
         evolved plants would display non-local adaptation, i.e.
         that the plants would not only adapt to their local
         environment, but would acquire general skill that would
         enable them to grow competitively against plants that
         were never a part of their environment. Statistical
         tests show that populations of plants that have evolved
         for a larger number of generations are able to occupy
         more grid space when played against populations of
         plants evolved for a shorter time, even if the two
         competing populations come from entirely different
         lineages. The plants did not reach an equilibrium after
         which further evolution failed to improve them.",
  notes =   "CEC 2004 - A joint meeting of the IEEE, the EPS, and
         the IEE.",
}