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To: eno_; Physicist
You might find that Stuart Kaufman's "Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution" is even more on point here than the Wolfram book. Kaufman applies the conceptual toolbox of statistical mechanics to look at the evolution of complex systems.

Table of Contents

Themes
1 Conceptual Outline of Current Evolutionary Theory 3
Pt. I Adaptation on the Edge of Chaos 29
2 The Structure of Rugged Fitness Landscapes 33
3 Biological Implications of Rugged Fitness Landscapes 69
4 The Structure of Adaptive Landscapes Underlying Protein Evolution 121
5 Self-Organization and Adaptation in Complex Systems 173
6 The Dynamics of Coevolving Systems 237
Pt. II The Crystallization of Life 285
7 The Origins of Life: A New View 287
8 The Origin of a Connected Metabolism 343
9 Hypercycles and Coding 357
10 Random Grammars: Models of Functional Integration and Transformation 369
Pt. III Order and Ontogeny 407
11 The Architecture of Genetic Regulatory Circuits and Its Evolution 411
12 Differentiation: The Dynamical Behaviors of Genetic Regulatory 441
13 Selection for Cell Types 523
14 Morphology, Maps, and the Spatial Ordering of Integrated Tissues

13 posted on 08/16/2002 11:56:10 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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To: The Great Satan
You won't find a creationist post like this.
15 posted on 08/16/2002 8:33:53 PM PDT by DaGman
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To: The Great Satan
Regardless of what Worlfram or Kaufman may say, you cannot develop, you cannot alter a program stochaistically as evolution requires. The developmental process of an organism is definitely a program and could not have evolved at random. Long disertations about what could be, might be do not disprove clearly established scientific facts.
17 posted on 08/16/2002 10:43:16 PM PDT by gore3000
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