abstract = "The C-value Paradox is the name given in biology to
the wide variance in and often very large amount of DNA
in eukaryotic genomes and the poor correlation between
DNA length and perceived organism complexity. Several
hypotheses exist which purport to explain the Paradox.
Surprisingly there is a related phenomenon in
evolutionary computation, known as code bloat, for
which a different set of hypotheses has arisen. This
paper describes a new hypothesis for the Cvalue Paradox
derived from models of code bloat. The new explanation
is that there is a selective bias in preference of
genetic events which increase DNA material over those
which decrease it. The paper suggests one possible
concrete mechanism by which this may occur: deleting
strands of DNA is more likely to damage genomic
material than migrating or copying strands. The paper
also discusses other hypotheses in biology and in
evolutionary computation, and provides a simulation
example as a proof of concept.",
notes = "GECCO-2005 A joint meeting of the fourteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2005) and the tenth annual genetic programming
conference (GP-2005).