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An introduction to the theory of and experiments with simple living systems, spanning statistical physics, information theory, self-organized criticality, percolation theory, fitness landscapes, and Eigen's theory of molecular evolution. The Avida software provided on ther CD-ROM and its User's Manual (in the Appendix) allows diverse exeriments to be carried out on populations of self-replicating computer programs. From the Back Cover
This book and CD-ROM have been developed in a course taught at Caltech since 1995, and is based on Alife research conducted there. The courses are attended by an interdisciplinary group of students from backgrounds in physics,computer science and the computational neural sciences. The intended target audience is advanced undergraduate to beginning graduate students, who have mastered essential concepts of statistical physics, thermodynamics, and basic biology. Also, a familiarity with computer architectures and scientific computing is assumed. The subject matter represents an attempt to bring together the theoretical groundwork and an experimental platform necessary for understanding and testing ideas about the dynmaics of systems of self-replicating information, the most basic incarnation of life. About the Author
Christoph Adami is a member of the faculty at the California Institute of Technology. Besides teaching a course in Artificial Life, he conducts research in Artificial Life, nuclear physics, and the quantum theory of information. Back to Artificial Life
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