Sleeping Gene Theory Kodansha, published 1997, 231 pages By Tetsuya Yomo, ¥1,650 (tax included) Condition: Age-related deterioration, sun-faded spine of the obi (sleeve), cover soiling, Overall yellowing (No writing, underlining, or stains) Content: ◼︎ In the late 90s, the author, Mr. Yomo, was featured as a young researcher working on unique research in programs such as television. He used less sophisticated computers than today to set up artificial life through programming and experimented with how evolution would progress. He also conducted experiments using E. coli to induce artificial evolution and observe how it changed. I believe this is still one of the interesting research topics. ◼︎ Text Description: A survival strategy of complex systems that overturns the fixed idea of "survival of the fittest and natural selection." Where do we come from, and where are we going? The impact of the "competitive coexistence theory" that overturns Darwin's theory of evolution and brings about an intellectual transformation in the way humans live and society functions. When organisms interact, properties that are not genetically determined change complexly, and the rate of proliferation changes. Under such complex interactions, one's own properties are not determined unless the other party is determined, and there is no value like an adaptation degree that simply continues to increase. Therefore, simple survival of the fittest does not hold, and some variants become competitive coexisting, creating diversity. And, when further mutations overlap, organisms do not optimize, and evolution continues forever.