Evolution Principles Simulation
Business-as-organism sim: NK landscapes, Lotka-Volterra, replicator dynamics
Typeexperiment
Statusprototype
Updated2026-03-22
SourcePrivate
What it is
A NumPy/Matplotlib simulation that applies biological mathematics to firms: selection culls the least fit, mutation perturbs strategy vectors, drift scales as 1/sqrt(N), species compete under Lotka-Volterra, and fitness comes from a tunable-ruggedness NK landscape. A reference document of the underlying math sits beside it.
The problem
Testing whether evolutionary dynamics give a usable model of competing firms.
How it works
- Config dataclass: 60 firms, 8-gene genomes, epistasis K, 300 generations
- NKLandscape class with tunable ruggedness
- Result plots written to evolution_results.png
Stack
PythonNumPyMatplotlib
Disciplines
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