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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
