[FRIAM] Eric Smith's mainstream Wired article on biological thermodynamics and evolution

[Russell Standish]

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

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