title: Computational illustration of the bootstrap effect.
abstract: A constructive computational model is used to show that even under poor case assumptions genetic systems accumulate features which increase their amenability to evolution. These features decrease the fitness of the individual organism, but hitchhike along with the fitness-increasing traits whose probability of appearance they increase.
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003201:Computers; D004261:DNA Replication; D008433:Mathematics; D008957:Models, Genetic; D012641:Selection, Genetic