Bibliography

Select Publications by EDU Community Scholars

Up to five references per scholar, with links to author publication lists where available.

Mary Ann Allison, author and scholar of complexity and evolutionary process in sociology and culture.

• Allison, M. (2005) Gecyberschaft: A Theoretical Model for the Analysis of Emerging Electronic Communities. Diss. Abs. Int. 65(11A)4366. UMI 3155725.

Robin Allott, author and scholar in linguistics, evolutionary psychology, and linguistic theories of cultural evolution.

• Allott, R. (1988/1991) The Motor Theory of Language: Origin and Function. In: Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Jan Wind et al. (eds.), Springer, 105-119.
• Allott, R. (1994/2001) The Evolutionary Significance of Human Life?. In: The Great Mosaic Eye: Language and Evolution, R. Allott, Book Guild.

Milan Circovic, astrophysicist and scholar in cosmology, astrobiology, philosophy of science and futures studies.

• Cirkivoc, M. (2003) Resource Letter PEs-1: Physical eschatology. American Journal of Physics 71:122-133.
• Cirkovic, M. (2008) Against the Empire: Possible evolutionary pathways of advanced extraterrestrial/future human civilizations. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 61(in press). arXiv[astro-ph]:0805.1821v1

Jean Chaline, paleontologist and biologist applying scale relativity theory to biological and human evolution.

• Nottale, L., Chaline, J., Grou, P. (2000) On the fractal structure of evolutionary trees. In: Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Vol. III, G. Losa, et. al. (Eds.), Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. 247-258.
• Robillard, P.-Y., Chaline, J., Chaouat, G. & Hulsey, T.C. (2003) Preeclampsia/Eclampsia and the Evolution of the Human Brain. Current Anthropology 44(1):130-134.
• Robillard, P.-Y., Dekker, G., Chaouat, G., Chaline, J., & Hulsey, T.C. (2008) Possible role of Eclampsia/Preeclampsia in Evolution of Human Reproduction. In: Evolutionary Medicine and Health: New Perspectives, W.R. Travathan et. al. (Eds.), Oxford U. Press, pp. 216-225.

James A. Coffman, embryologist and theoretical biologist studying developmental ascendancy.

• Coffman, J.A. (2005) On reductionism, organicism, somatic mutations and cancer. Bioessays 27:459; author reply, 460–461.
• Coffman, J.A. (2006) Developmental Ascendancy: From Bottom-up to Top-down Control. Biological Theory 1(2):165-178.

Joël de Rosnay, systems theorist, futurist, prolific author, and scholar in symbiosis and computer science.

• de Rosnay, J. (1979) The Macroscope: A Systemic Approach to Complexity (Online Book), Harper & Row. ISBN 0060110295
• de Rosnay, J. (2000) The Symbiotic Man, McGraw Hill. ISBN 0071357440

Steven J. Dick, historian of science, prolific author, expert on astrobiology, astrosociology, and SETI.

• Dick, S.J. (1999) The Biological Universe (Google Books), Cambridge U. Press.
• Dick, S.J. (2002) Cultural evolution, the postbiological universe and SETI, Int. J. of Astrobiology 2:65-74. DOI:10.1017/S147355040300137X
• Dick, S.J. (2006) The Postbiological Universe (PDF, 8 pages), address to the 57th Int. Astronautical Congress 2006.

Taner Edis, physicist, philosopher, scholar of complex systems and the naturalistic world view.

• Edis, T. (2002) The Ghost in the Universe (Amazon), Prometheus Books. ISBN 1573929778
• Edis, T. (1998) How Godel's Theorem Supports the Possibility of Machine Intelligence. Minds and Machines 8:251.

Börje Ekstig, physicist, scholar of biological, social and technol. evolution, proposer of condensation of development.

• Ekstig, B. (1994) Condensation of Developmental Stages and Evolution (Abs). BioScience 44(3)158-164.
• Ekstig, B. (2004) The Evolution of Language and Science Studied by Means of Biological Concepts. Journal of Memetics 8.
• Ekstig, B. (2007) A Unifying Principle Of Biological And Cultural Evolution And Its Implications For The Future. World Futures: The J. of General Evolution 63(2):98-106.

George F. R. Ellis, one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology. See the wikipedia article.

• Rothman, T. and Ellis, G.F.R. (1992) Smolin's Natural Selection Hypothesis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 34:201-212.
• Ellis, G.F.R. (2005) Philosophy of cosmology. In: Handbook in Philosophy of Physics, Ed J Butterfield and J Earman (Elsevier, 2006),1183-1285.

James N. Gardner, complexity theorist, scholar in philosophy, and proposer of the selfish biocosm hypothesis.

• Gardner, James N. (2000) The selfish biocosm: Compexity as cosmology. Complexity 5(3):34-45.
• Gardner, James N. (2003) Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution (Amazon), Inner Ocean Pub. ISBN 1930722222
• Gardner, James N. (2007) The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos (Amazon), New Page. ISBN 1564149196

Tom Gehrels, distinguished astronomer, cosmologist and scholar in universal evolution and multiverse models.

• Gehrels, T. (2007) The Multiverse and the Origin of our Universe, arXiv:0707.1030v1.
• Gehrels, T. (2007) Survival Through Evolution: From Multiverse to Modern Society, BookSurge. ISBN 1419670557

Carlos Gershenson, complexity theorist researching self-organization, evolution, ALife, and cognition.

• Gershenson, C. (2007) The World as Evolving Information. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Complex Systems ICCS2007.
• Gershenson, C., Aerts, D. & Edmonds, B. (Eds.). (2007) Worldviews, Science, and Us: Philosophy and Complexity, World Scientific.
• Gershenson, C. and Lenaerts, T. (2008) Evolution of Complexity. Artificial Life 14(3):241–243
• Gershenson, C., and Heylighen, F. (2003) When Can We Call a System Self-Organizing? LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: 606-614.
• Gershenson, C., and Heylighen, F. (2005) How can we think the complex? Managing Organizational Complexity: Philosophy, Theory and Application: 47–61. .

Richard Gordon, embryologist and theoretical biologist exploring development, genetics, and evolution.

• Gordon, R. (2001) Making waves: the paradigms of developmental biology and their impact on artificial life and embryonics. Cybernetics & Systems 32(3-4):443-458.
• Gordon, R. (2001) The Hierarchical Genome and Differention Waves: Novel Unification of Development, Genetics, and Evolution, 2 Vol. Set, World Scientific. ISBN 9810222688

Hari M. Gupta, theoretical physicist and scholar in power law distributions and evolution.

• Gupta, H.M. and Campanha, J.R. (2003) Is Power Law Scaling a quantitative description of Darwin Theory of Evolution? arXiv:cond-mat/0311542v1
• Gupta, H.M. and Campanha, J.R. (2005) Power-law distribution in a learning process: competition, learning and natural selection (Abs). Physica A 345:267--274.

William F. Harms, philosopher and scholar in cultural evolution, information, and moral ecologies.

• Harms, W.F. (2004) Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes, Cambridge U. Press. ISBN 0521815142
• Harms, W.F. (2006) What is Information: Three Concepts. Biological Theory 1(1)23-24.
• Harms, W.F. and Skyrms, B. (2008) Evolution of Moral Norms. In: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology, Michael Ruse (ed.), Oxford. ISBN 0195182057
• Harms, W.F. and Danielson, P. (2008+) Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies. A website of interactive simulators and documentation for evolutionary game theory.

Francis Heylighen, systems theorist and cyberneticist focusing on the evolution of complexity.

• Heylighen, F. (1989) Causality as Distinction Conservation: a theory of predictability, reversibility and time order. Cybernetics and Systems, no. 20: 361-384. .
• Heylighen, F. (1990) A Structural Language for the Foundations of Physics . International Journal of General Systems, no. 18: 93-112.
• Heylighen, F. (1999) The growth of structural and functional complexity during evolution. The evolution of complexity: The violet book of “Einstein meets Magritte: 17-44.
• Heylighen, F. (2007) Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution: from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain. In: Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change, George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William Thompson (Eds.), Routledge, pp. 286-335.
• Heylighen, F., and Joslyn, C. (2001) Cybernetics and Second Order Cybernetics. Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology 4:155-170.

David Holcman, mathematician and computational biologist modeling microstructures in biological systems.

• Holcman, D., Kasatkin, V. & Prochiantz, A. (2007) Modeling homeoprotein intercellular transfer unveils a parsimonious mechanism for gradient and boundary formation in early brain development. Journal of Theoretical Biology 249:503-517.

Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis, entomologist, ecotoxicologist, scholar in evolution and hierarchy theory.

• Jagers op Akkerhuis, G.A.J.M., van Straalen, N.M. (1999) Operators, the Lego-bricks of nature, evolutionary transitions from fermions to neural networks. World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution 53:329-345.
• Jagers op Akkerhuis, G.A.J.M. (2001) Extrapolating a hierarchy of building block systems towards future neural network organisms. Acta Biotheoretica 49:171-189.
• Jagers op Akkerhuis, G.A.J.M. (2001) Technische intelligentie is volgend stadium in de evolutie. Essaybundel Kennisdissiminatie.
• Jagers op Akkerhuis, G.A.J.M. (2008) Analysing hierarchy in the organization of biological and physical systems. Biological Reviews 83:1–12.

John A. Leslie, philosopher of science and cosmology, distinguished scholar in anthropic reasoning.

• Leslie, J.A. (1989) Universes (Google Books), Routledge.
• Leslie, J.A., Ed. (1999) Modern Cosmology & Philosophy (Amazon), Prometheus.

Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysicist presently specializing in black holes and cosmology.

• Luminet, J.P. (2007) The Wraparound Universe, AK Peters.
• Luminet, J.P., Weeks, J.R., Riazuelo, A., Lehoucq, R. and Uzan,J.P. (2003) Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background. Nature 425(6958):593-595. doi:10.1038/nature01944.

G. Rama Murthy, computer engineer and specialist in neural networks and intelligent systems.

• Murthy, G.R. (2007) Multidimensional Neural Networks Unified Theory, NAI Press. ISBN 9788122422283.

Laurent Nottale, cosmologist and pioneering theorist in scale relativity and fractal space-time.

• Nottale, L. (1993) Fractal Space-Time and Microphysics: Towards a Theory of Scale Relativity, World Scientific Pub Co., 300p. (Google Books)
• Nottale, L., Chaline, J., Grou, P. (2000) On the fractal structure of evolutionary trees. In: Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Vol. III, G. Losa, et. al. (Eds.), Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. 247-258.
• Nottale, L. Chaline, J., & Grou, P. (2000) Les Arbres de l'Evolution (The Trees of Evolution), Hachette.

Alain Prochiantz, neurobiologist and specialist of cerebral morphogenesis and stochastic developmental processes.

• Prochiantz, A. (2000) (On the Development of) Machine-Esprit, Odile Jacob, 213 p.
• Kasatkin, V., Prochiantz, A. & Holcman, D. (2008) Morphogenetic gradients and the stability of boundaries between neighbouring morphogenetic regions. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 70:156-178.

Stanley N. Salthe, theoretical biologist, scholar in developmentalism, thermodynamics, ecology and natural philosophy.

• Salthe, S.N. (1985) Evolving Hierarchical Systems: Their Structure and Representation, Columbia U. Press. ISBN 0231060165
• Salthe, S.N. (1993) Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in Biology, MIT Press. ISBN 0262193353
• Salthe, S.N. (2002) Summary of the principles of hierarchy theory. General Systems Bulletin 31:13-17.
• Salthe, S.N. (2004) The natural philosophy of ecology: developmental systems ecology. Ecological Complexity 2:1-19.
• Salthe, S.N. (2006) Two frameworks for complexity generation in biological systems. In: Evolution of Complexity (ALife X Proceedings), C. Gershenson and T. Lenaerts (Eds.), Indiana U. Press.

John M. Smart, systems theorist studying accelerating change and evolutionary development.

• Smart, J.M. (2002) Answering the Fermi Paradox, J. of Evol. and Technology, June 2002.
• Smart, J.M. (2008) Evo Devo Universe? A Framework for Speculations on Cosmic Culture. In: Cosmos and Culture, Steven J. Dick and Mark Lupisella (Eds.), NASA Press.

John Stewart, evolutionary thinker, author and evolutionary activist.

• Stewart, J. E. (2000) Evolution's Arrow: the direction of evolution and the future of humanity. Canberra: Chapman Press.
• Stewart, J. E. (2007) The future evolution of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies 14(8)58-92.
• Stewart, J. E. (2008) The Evolutionary Manifesto.
• Stewart, J. E. (2008) The meaning of life in a developing universe. Paper presented at the first International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe, Paris 2008.
  

Robert E. Ulanowicz, eminent ecologist, pioneer of developmental ascendancy, and scholar of process philosophy.

• Ulanowicz, R.E. (1986) Growth and Development: Ecosystems Phenomenology, Springer.
• Ulanowicz, R.E. (1997) Ecology: The Ascendant Perspective, Allen T.F.H., Roberts D.W. (Eds.), Columbia U. Press.

Pushkar G. Vaidya, astrobiologist, author, and proposer of the cosmic contact censorship hypothesis.

• Vaidya, P.G. (2007) Cosmic Contact Censorship, arXiv:physics/0702172.
• Vaidya, P.G. (2007) Are We Alone in the Multiverse?, arXiv:0706.031.

Clement Vidal, philosopher and systems theorist studying evolutionary cosmology.

• Vidal, C. (2007) An Enduring Philosophical Agenda. Worldview Construction as a Philosophical Method. Submitted for publication.
  
• Vidal, C. (2008) Evo Devo Universe: towards a biological paradigm for cosmology (PDF, 4 MB) Poster presented at the 401. WE-Heraeus-Seminar. Evolution and Physics - Concepts, Models and Applications (21-23 January 2008 at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany).
• Vidal, C. (2008) The Future of Scientific Simulations: from Artificial Life to Artificial Cosmogenesis. In press.

Peter Winiwarter, transdisciplinary researcher in complex systems, neural networks and evolution.

• Winiwarter, P. (1986) Autognosis: The Theory of Hierarchical Self-Image Building Systems. Proc. of Intnat'l Conf. on Mental Images, Values & Reality, Soc. for General Systems Research.
• Winiwarter, P. and Cempel, C. (1992) Life Symptoms: The Behaviour of Open Systems with Limited Dissipation Capacity and Evolution. Systems Research 9(4)9-34.
  
• Winiwarter, P. (1999) A periodic system of system concepts. Semiotica 125(1/3)47-62.

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Other Scholars and Publications of Interest to the Community (Living Scholars)

Up to five references per scholar, with links to author publication lists where available.

Pierre Baldi, computer scientist, biologist, scholar in bioinformatics and machine learning.

• Baldi, P. (2001) The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution, MIT Press.
• Baldi, P., Frasconi, P., & Smyth, P. (2003) Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms, Wiley.

Daniel R. Brooks, theoretical biologist, ecologist, scholar in evolution, self-organization, and information theory.

• Brooks, D.R. and Wiley, E.O. (1988) Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology (2nd Ed.), U. Chicago Press. ISBN 0226075745
• Brooks, D.R. and McLennan, D.A. (2002) The Nature of Diversity: An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery, U. Chicago Press. ISBN 0226075907

Eric J. Chaisson, educator and astrophysicist, scholar in the origin, evolution, and unification of universal complexity.

• Chaisson, E.J. (2000) Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature, Harvard U. Press. ISBN 067400342X
• Chaisson, E.J. (2003) A Unifying Concept for Astrobiology, International Journal of Astrobiology, 2:91-101.
• Chaisson, E.J. (2005) Follow the Energy: Relevance of Cosmic Evolution for Human History. Historically Speaking: Journal of the Historical Society 6(5)26-30.
• Chaisson, E.J. (2008) Long-term Global Heating from Energy Usage. Eos Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 89(28)253.
• Chaisson, E.J. (2008) Cosmic Evolution: State of the Science. In: Cosmos and Culture, Steven J. Dick (Ed.), NASA Press (forthcoming).

David Christian, historian, scholar in world and human history, pioneer of big history (cosmic origins to modern society).

• Christian, D. (1991) The Case for "Big History". Journal of World History 2(2)223-38.
• Christian, D. (2004) Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, U. California Press. ISBN 0520244761
• Christian, D. (2007) This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, Berkshire Pub. Group. ISBN 1933782048

Louis Crane, mathematician, scholar in geometric topology, quantum field theory and proposer of the meduso-anthropic principle.

• Crane, L. (1994) Possible Implications of the Quantum Theory of Gravity: An Introduction to the Meduso-Anthropic Principle, arXiv:hep-th/9402104v1
  

Gerald Edelman, eminent biologist, scholar in immune systems and neural development.

• Edelman, G. (1987) Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection, Oxford. ISBN 0192860895
• Sporns, O., Tononi, G. and Edelman, G. (2002) Theoretical neuroanatomy and the connectivity of the cerebral cortex. Behavioural Brain Research 135(1-2):69-74. doi:10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00157-2.

Gary Greenberg, comparative and developmental psychologist, seeking unified theories for macrodevelopment of animal behavior.

• Greenberg, G. and Tobach, E. (Eds.) (1988) Evolution of Social Behavior and Integrative Levels, Lawrence Erlbaum. ISBN 0898597234
• Greenberg, G. and Haraway, M.M. (2001) Principles of Comparative Psychology, Allyn & Bacon. ISBN 0205280145
• Greenberg, G., Partridge, T., Weiss, E. and Pisula, W. (2004) Comparative psychology: A new perspective for the 21st century. Developmental Psychobiology, 44:1-15.

Anders Johansen, physicist and scholar in scale invariance and cooperative phenomena in complex systems.

• Johansen, A. (1997) Discrete scale invariance and other cooperative phenomena in spatially extended systems with threshold dynamics, Ph.D. Thesis, NBI.
• Johansen, A., Sornette, D. & Ledoit, O. (1999) Predicting financial crashes using discrete scale invariance. J. of Risk, 1(4):5-32.
• Johansen A. and Sornette, D. (2001) Finite-time singularity in the dynamics of the world population, economic and financial indices. Physica A 294(3-4):465-502.

Robert J. Lifton, psychiatrist, pioneer in psychohistory, developer of the theory of symbolic immortality.

• Lifton, R.J. (1974/2000). Living and Dying, Bantam. ISBN 0553063472
• Lifton, R.J. (1976/1983) The Life of the Self: Toward a New Psychology, Basic Books. ISBN 0465040888
• Lifton, R. J. and Olson, E. (2004) Symbolic Immortality. In: Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader, Antonius C.G.M. Robben (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 1405114711

Akop P. Nazaretyan, psychologist, culturologist, scholar of big (universal) history.

• Nazaretyan, A.P. (2005) Big (Universal) History Paradigm: Versions and Approaches, Social Evolution & History 4:61-86.

Stuart A. Newman, chemical physicist, cell biologist, scholar of dynamical patterning modules (DPMs) and self-organization of development.

• Newman, S.A. and Bhat, R. (2008) Dynamical patterning modules: physico-genetic determinants of morphological development and evolution (Abs), Phys. Biol. 5 015008. doi:10.1088/1478-3975/5/1/015008
• Forgacs, G. and Newman, S.A. (2005) Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo, Cambridge U. Press. ISBN 0521783372
• Muller, G.B., Newman, S.A. (Eds.) (2003) Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, MIT Press. ISBN 0262134195

Alexander D. Panov, physicist, scholar of big (universal) history, and accelerating change in universal history.

• Panov, A.D. (2004). The crisis of Universal history’s planetary cycle. Mercury of Russian Academy of Sciences 74(6):537-550. (In Russian).

Massimo Pigliucci, geneticist, ecologist, philosopher, researcher in epigenetics and extended evolutionary synthesis.

• Pigliucci, M. (2008) Is evolvability evolvable?, Nature Genetics 9:75-82. doi:10.1038/nrg2278
• Pigliucci, M. (2007) Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?, Evolution 61(12):2743-2749. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00246.x
• Pigliucci, M. (2001) Phenotypic Plasticity, Johns Hopkins U. Press. ISBN 0801867886

Robert G.B. Reid, theoretical biologist, defines evolution as destabilizing innovation/variation and stabilizing natural selection.

• Reid, R.G.B. (1985) Evolutionary Theory: The Unfinished Synthesis, Cornell U. Press. ISBN 0801418313
• Reid, R.G.B. (2007) Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment, MIT Press. ISBN 0262182572

Eric D. Schneider, biologist, systems scientist and scholar in thermodynamics in complex systems.

• Schneider, E.D. and Kay J.J. (1994) Life as a Manifestation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Math. and Comp. Modelling 19(6-8):25-48.
• Schneider, E.D. and Sagan, D. (2005) Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life, U. Chicago Press. ISBN 0226739368

Quentin Smith, naturalistic philosopher of cosmology, physics, time, and language.

• Smith, Q. (1990) A Natural Explanation of the Existence and Laws of Our Universe. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 68:22-43.
• Smith, Q. (2000) The Black Hole Origin Theory of the Universe, Internal Conf. on Physical Cosmology, Santa Barbara.
• Smith, Q. and Grünbaum, A. (eds.) (2009) The Uncreated Universe, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

Lee Smolin, eminent theoretical physicist, loop quantum gravity scholar, proposer of the theory of cosmological natural selection.

• Smolin, L. (1992) Did the Universe Evolve? Classical and Quantum Gravity 9:173-191.
• Smolin, L. (1994) The fate of black hole singularities and the parameters of the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. arXiv:gr-qc/9404011v1
• Smolin, L. (1997) The Life of the Cosmos, Oxford U. Press. ISBN 0195126645
• Smolin, L. (2004) Scientific alternatives to the anthropic principle.. In: Universe or Multiverse?, Bernard Carr (Ed.), 2007, Cambridge U. Press. ISBN 0521848415
• Smolin, L. (2006) The status of cosmological natural selection. arXiv:hep-th/0612185v1

Graeme D. Snooks, economist, social scientist, and scholar of evolutionary dynamics and big history.

• Snooks, G.D. (1993) Economics Without Time. A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change, U. of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472104950
• Snooks, G.D. (1999) Global Transition. A General Theory of Economic Development. St Martins Press. ISBN 0312223706
• Snooks, G.D. (2002) Uncovering the laws of global history. Social Evolution & History 1:25–53.
• Snooks, G.D. (2003) The Collapse of Darwinism or The Rise of a Realist Theory of Life. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0739106139
• Snooks, G.D. (2005) Big history or big theory? Uncovering the laws of life. Social Evolution & History 4(1)

Fred Spier, anthropologist, scholar of big history (cosmic origins to modern society).

• Spier, F. (1996) The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang Until Today, Amsterdam U. Press. ISBN 9053562206
• Spier, F. (2005) How Big History Works: Energy Flows (Free Energy Rate Density) and the Rise and Demise of Complexity. Social Evolution & History 4(1).

Olaf Sporns, computational biologist, scholar in models of neural circuitry, graph theory, embodied robotics (animats).

• Sporns, O., Tononi, G. and Edelman, G. (2002) Theoretical neuroanatomy and the connectivity of the cerebral cortex. Behavioural Brain Research 135(1-2):69-74. doi:10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00157-2.
• Sporns, O. et. al. (2004) [http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecortex/TICS2004.pdf Organization, development and function of complex brain networks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8(9):418-25. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2004.07.008
• Sporns, O., Tononi, G. and Kotter, R. (2005) The human connectome: A structural description of the human brain. PLoS Computational Biology 1(4):e42.

Victor J. Stenger, prolific author, naturalistic philosopher, emeritus physicist, cosmologist, and astronomer.

• Stenger, V.J. (1990) The Universe: the ultimate free lunch. European Journal of Physics 11:236-243.
• Stenger, V.J. (2000) Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes, Prometheus Books. ISBN 1573928593
• Stenger, V.J. (2006) The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do The Laws Of Physics Come From?, Prometheus Books. ISBN 1591024242

Valentin F. Turchin, computer scientist, cybernetician, evolution scholar, proposer of meta-system transitions theory.

• Turchin, V.F. (1977). The Phenomenon of Science, Columbia U. Press. ISBN 9780231039833
• Turchin, V.F. (1990) Cybernetics and Philosophy. In: The Cybernetics of Complex Systems, F. Geyer (Ed.), Intersystems, p. 61-74.

J. Scott Turner, physiologist, scholar in the extended phenotype (organism and environment) and the natural emergence of design.

• Turner, J.S. (2000) The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, Harvard U. Press. ISBN 0674009851
• Turner, J.S. (2007) The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself, Harvard U. Press. ISBN 0674023536

Geoffrey B. West, physicist and scholar in scaling and growth laws in living, social, and technological systems.

• West, G.B. Brown, J.H. and Enquist, B.J. (2000) The origin of universal scaling laws in biology. In: Scaling in Biology, J.H. Brown and G.B. West (Eds.), Oxford U. Press. ISBN 0195131428
• West, G.B., Brown, J.H. and Enquist, B.J. (2001) A General Model for Ontogenetic Growth. Nature 413:628-631.
• Brown, J.H., Gupta, V.K., Li, B-L, Milne, B.T., Restrepo, C. and West, G.B. (2002) The fractal nature of nature: power laws, ecological complexity, and biodiversity. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. May 29; 357(1421):619–626. doi:10.1098/rstb.2001.0993
• West, G.B. and Brown, J.H. (2005) The Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology from Genomes to Ecosystems: Towards a Quantitative Unifying Theory of Biological Structure and Organization. Journal of Experimental Biology 208(9)1575-92.

Wojciech H. Zurek, distinguished physicist, quantum and classical information theorist, proposer of the theory of quantum Darwinism.

• Olliver, H., Poulin D., and Zurek, W.H. (2005) Environment as a Witness: Selective Proliferation of Information and Emergence of Objectivity in a Quantum Universe, arXiv:quant-ph/0408125v3
• Blume-Kohout, R. and Zurek, W.H. (2005) Quantum Darwinism: Entanglement, Branches, and the Emergent Classicality of Redundantly Stored Quantum Information, arXiv:quant-ph/0505031v2
• Zurek, W. H. (2007) Relative States and the Environment: Einselection, Envariance, Quantum Darwinism, and the Existential Interpretation, arXiv:0707.2832v1 [quant-ph]

Other Scholars and Publications of Interest to the Community (Deceased Scholars)

Arthur Willey, biologist and early scholar of evolutionary convergence (homoplasy).

• Willey, A. (1911) Convergence in Evolution, E.P. Dutton & Co. (Google Books)

François Meyer, biologist and pioneering scholar of log-periodic acceleration in life and cultural evolution.

• Meyer, F. (1947) L'acceleration evolutive. Essai sur le rythme evolutif et son interpretation quantique, Librairie des Sciences et des Arts, Paris, 67p.
• Meyer, F. (1954) Problématique de l'évolution, Presses Universitaires de France, 279p.

Online Bibliographies and Databases

Natural Genesis, A sourcebook for the worldwide discovery of a creative organic universe Arthur Fabel provides 2,000 annotated and anthologized references with a great overlap with EDU Themes.

Selection Theory Bibliography, Gary A. Cziko and Donald T. Campbell. 1,100 references (1997 and earlier) to meta-Darwinian (beyond genetic) selectionist models, primarily in cognitive science.

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