Stephen Jay Gould has proposed with Niles Eldredge the theory of punctuated equilibrium (*) in evolution. The traditional or gradualistic view, represented by...
Richard Dawkins writes in the foreword to "The Theory of Evolution" from John Maynard Smith (Cambridge University Press, 1993): "You can live some sort of life...
From the publisher "Kassel University Press". I will post a link to the corresponding website as soon as it is published (which will be next month, maybe even...
Oops, the last posting got the wrong subject line. Here are the most interesting new SFI working papers: Networks, Fields, and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics,...
in "How the Mind Works" he writes on page 92 (where he discusses Herbert Simon's article): "Modular design in computers and minds is a special case of modular,...
NKS Summer School 2004 will be held June 20 - July 9, 2004 at Brown University. Applications were due March 15 for the NKS Summer School 2004, but late...
Are memes cooperative and genes selfish ? A meme, a word orginally coined by Richard Dawkins, is according to the Oxford English Dictionary MEME An element of...
Jochen Fromm wrote:- ... -- snip -- ... True. And since memes have such efficient replication mechanisms, what then limits their explosive cancer-like growth...
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May 12, 2004 7:47 am
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According to a saying, if you give a boy a hammer, the whole world becomes a nail. As Steven Pinker argues in "How the Mind works", if you give someone an ...
Man, mouse, rat, chicken, dog and fish share more DNA than previously thought. A collection of mystery DNA segments, which seem to be critical for the survival...
Geologist Luann Becker believes she has found more evidence for an ancient crater left by the impact off the coast of what is now Australia. "What we found is...
The NYTimes also offers an report about Luann Becker's discoveries with a nice multimedia graphic: Scientists Say Crater Is Result of a Killer Meteor ...
Are humans a random accident or an inevitable product of evolution ? Why did only our ancestors enter the cognitive niche ? Stephen Jay Gould says in "Life's...
My new book "The Emergence of Complexity" is published (probably) next week. Just as the name says, it is about Emergence, Complexity and Evolution. It does...
Complex adaptive systems (CAS) consist of a large number of mutually interacting and interwoven parts. Examples are neural and social networks, nervous and...
... Yes. My 'theory' is that people who grow up in a 'cartoon dominated' society [ eg. Disney's talking animals ] become 'like me' centered. Antropomorphic ? =...
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Hi, nice to heard that your new book is coming. When it will be available can you send us a meesage? I just try amazon and it still is not mentioned. thanks ...
Yes, of course I will announce it here, as soon as it is available. I don't know if it will be available at Amazon, presumably not. As soon as I have more...
"While we often speak of society as though it were a static structure defined by tradition, it is, in the more intimate sense, nothing of the kind, but a...
Here are some gems from various Crank websites, some of them are really amusing. More sites can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/Physics/pots.html ...
New Papers from Martin A. Nowak, Harvard University Nowak MA, Sasaki A, Taylor C, Fudenberg D Emergence of cooperation and evolutionary stability in finite ...
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI, http://www.santafe.edu/) celebrates its 20th year of problem solving at the edge of knowledge. The famous and prestigious...
Complex Systems in Language Evolution: The Cultural Emergence of Compositional Structure Kenny Smith, Henry Brighton and Simon Kirby Advances in Complex...
It is very hard to invent a new scientific law or theory. There are so many existing scientific theories that it is nearly impossible to invent and create a...
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