Eric Smith's mainstream Wired article on biological thermodynamics and evolution
Posted by
Russell Standish on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Eric-Smith-s-mainstream-Wired-article-on-biological-thermodynamics-and-evolution-tp525757p525758.html
Interestingly, I was just the other day reading a fairly technical
paper making essentially the same point:
Stanley & Miikkulainen (2004) J. AI Research vol 21, pp63-100 "Competitive
Coevolution through Evolutionary Complexification".
Cheers
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:11:26PM -0700, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Nice, Eric!
>
>
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/evolution-as-bi.html> Abstract:Most evolutionary biologists cherish Darwin's theory of natural
> selection (NS) as the process of adaptive evolution more than 140 years after
> publication of his first book on the subject. However, in the past few decades
> the study of self-organization (SO) in complex dynamical systems has suggested
> that adaptation may occur through intrinsic reorganization without NS. In this
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile)
Mathematics
UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpcoder at hpcoders.com.au
Australia
http://www.hpcoders.com.au----------------------------------------------------------------------------