@Book{		  origin:order,
  author =	 {Stuart Kauffman},
  title =	 {The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and
                  Selection in Evolution},
  googleid =	 {pcwX8_nGOdoJ:scholar.google.com/},
  publisher =	 {Oxford University Pres},
  year =	 1993,
  comment =	 {A comprehensive introduction to many of Kauffman's
                  ideas. It talks about co-evolutionary search in the
                  NK model, among many other topics.},
  abstract =	 { Stuart Kauffman here presents a brilliant new
                  paradigm for evolutionary biology, one that extends
                  the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to
                  accommodate recent findings and perspectives from
                  the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and
                  mathematics. The book drives to the heart of the
                  exciting debate on the origins of life and
                  maintenance of order in complex biological
                  systems. It focuses on the concept of
                  self-organization: the spontaneous emergence of
                  order that is widely observed throughout nature
                  Kauffman argues that self-organization plays an
                  important role in the Darwinian process of natural
                  selection. Yet until now no systematic effort has
                  been made to incorporate the concept of
                  self-organization into evolutionary theory. The
                  construction requirements which permit complex
                  systems to adapt are poorly understood, as is the
                  extent to which selection itself can yield systems
                  able to adapt more successfully. This book explores
                  these themes. It shows how complex systems, contrary
                  to expectations, can spontaneously exhibit stunning
                  degrees of order, and how this order, in turn, is
                  essential for understanding the emergence and
                  development of life on Earth. Topics include the new
                  biotechnology of applied molecular evolution, with
                  its important implications for developing new drugs
                  and vaccines; the balance between order and chaos
                  observed in many naturally occurring systems; new
                  insights concerning the predictive power of
                  statistical mechanics in biology; and other major
                  issues. Indeed, the approaches investigated here may
                  prove to be the new center around which biological
                  science itself will evolve. The work is written for
                  all those interested in the cutting edge of research
                  in the life sciences.},
  keywords =     {complexity biology},
  isbn = 	 {0195079515},
  created =	 1001877550,
  cluster = 	 {15724818350768376997}
}