Books written by Stuart A. Kauffman
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Investigations
A fascinating exploration of the very essence of life itself sheds new light on the order and evolution in complex life systems and defines and explains autonomous agents and work within the contexts of thermodynamics and information theory ...
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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution.
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A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
Cells are autopoetic systems that build themselves: they literally construct their own constraints on the release of energy into a few degrees of freedom that constitutes the very thermodynamic work by which they build their own self ...
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A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
We are in a world beyond physics. We are in a world of living creatures that construct themselves. Yet we lack the concepts to say it. A tree, from a seed, builds itself, launches itself upward toward the sun.
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Molecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes: Protein, RNA, and the Immune System
This proceedings volume is an excellent reference for graduate students and professionals in immunology, population biology, physics and molecular biology.
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Molecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes: Protein, RNA, and the Immune System
Molecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes: Protein, RNA, and the Immune System
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The Origins of Order: Self-organization and Selection in Evolution
A spin - glass model of evolution I : Molecular evolution on rugged landscapes : Proteins , RNA , and the immune system . In Molecular Evolution on Rugged Landscapes : Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity ( S. A. ...
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The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
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.
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Investigations
, Kauffman's Investigations is a tour-de-force exploration of the very essence of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests--the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and ...
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Investigations
Consider again how the chemical diversity of the biosphere has become more diverse in the past four billion years, ... But then the diversity of possible reactions is the square of the diversity of chemicals in the system.
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Humanity in a Creative Universe
In this book, Kauffman argues that the development of life on earth is not prestatable, because no theory could ever fully account for the limitless variability of evolution.
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-organization and Complexity
At Home in the Universe presents and extends the intellectual core ofKauffman's earlier book The Origins of Order (OUP 1993) for any intelligentgeneral reader can understand and appreciate.