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Books Related to Artificial Life and Evolution Vehicles An utterly fantastic book. It is short (168 pages) and is *highly* recommended for anyone interested in artificial life, Darwin's Dangerous Idea This book goes into the philosophical importance of evolution. It also covers much of the more complicated parts of evolutionary theory. It's a bit long and but not horrendously technical. I would also recommend Dawkin's various books, particularly "The Selfish Gene", however most of his work has been so incredibly successful that the ideas in it have already seeped into most other writings on evolution (including the papers on this page). I guess this is good for Dawkins, but it is a bit ironic since it makes his works no longer as important.

Simple Example Program Demonstrating Evolution I will gladly answer any questions about this program or this program in its relation to evolution, just write me an email. evolution_ex.py fitness_landscape.py evolution_ex.log This file has the raw data from which I generated my graphs

Papers Related to Artificial Life

What is Life/Artificial Life Langton.ALife.pdf -- Introduction to Cellular Automata FarmerBelin.IsItAlive.pdf -- One of the best current defintions of life

Historical James.Psych-Assoc.pdf -- William James paper on psychological associationism, this form of thinking was mathematized with Hebbian learning and is used implemented in Alife simulations Walter.ImitationOfLife.pdf -- Walter Grey's Turtles

Academic, Interplay between evolution and neural networks Chalmers.EvoLearning.pdf -- (Theoretical) Evolution applied to Neural Networks. Author is David Chalmers, now a prominent philosopher on consciousness Parisi.LearnBehavEvo.pdf -- (theory) Interactions between evolution and neural networks

Evolution HintonNowlan.Learn_Evo.pdf -- (short) How evolution can guide learned adaptions (Baldwin Effect) Langton.EdgeOfChaos.pdf -- Alife and information theory

Simulated Brains Linsker.OrgPrinc.pdf -- Artificial neural systems capturing key features of biological neural systems [1]. Linsker.SelfOrg.pdf -- Artificial neural systems capturing key features of biological neural systems [2].

Animal Intelligence NewSci.PrimitiveCog.pdf -- (non-academic) Animal Intelligence, Fruitflies SalienceInFly.overview.pdf -- Animal Intelligence, Fruitflies Giurfa.Honeybees.pdf -- Animal Intelligence

Basic Methods Anderson.Neurocomp.pdf -- Introduction to Neural Networks Goldberg.IntroToGAs.pdf -- Introduction to Evolution/Genetic Algorithms Hebb.OrgOfBehavior.pdf -- Learning mechansim of the brain (hebbian learning) Schneider.InfoTheory.pdf -- Introduction to Information Theory

Important past experiments Ray.tierra.pdf -- Tom Ray's "Tierra". First alife system to successfully evolve computer code Sims.EvoVirtCreatures.pdf -- Karl Sim's paper on the "Blocky Creatures"

Polyworld Yaeger.Polyworld.pdf -- Polyworld Whitepaper