%0 Journal Article
%T Cryptographic Nature
%A David Krakauer
%J Quantitative Biology
%D 2015
%I arXiv
%X I consider the many ways in which evolved information-flows are restricted and metabolic resources protected and hidden -- the thesis of living phenomena as evolutionary cryptosystems. I present the information theory of secrecy systems and discuss mechanisms acquired by evolved lineages that encrypt sensitive heritable information with random keys. I explore the idea that complexity science is a cryptographic discipline as "frozen accidents", or various forms of regularized randomness, historically encrypt adaptive dynamics.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01744v1