Notes

Chapter 8: Implications for Everyday Systems


Section 5: Fundamental Issues in Biology

Adaptive value of complexity Analogies with thermodynamics Attitudes of biologists Belief in [biological] optimality [Biological] species Defining life Genetic algorithms Genetic programs [in biology] History [of biological complexity] Major new features [in biological evolution] Other models [of mutation] Proteins Smooth variables [in biology] Software [system] statistics Studying natural selection Tricks in [biological] evolution

From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]