Evolution WEB Links

 

The links below are structured into 3 broad categories :

- Information, Entropy, Memetics and evolution

- Complexity, Self-Organization and evolution

- Physical, Chemical, Biological and Cultural evolution

Many of these links contain a list of link that is longer than the list below,

but I have selected here the most relevant links in the context of this site.

 

 

Information, Entropy, Memetics and Evolution

• Life as a manifestation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and other publications by Schneider and Kay : comprehensive papers on contemporary thermodynamics and evolution
• Semiotics for Beginners, an easy reading introduction to the basics of semiotics by D. Chandler
• Papers by C. Emmeche and J. Hoffmeyer on Semiotics in Nature
• Evolving self-reference : matter, symbols and semantic closure by H. H. Pattee
• Semiotic paradigm in theoretical biology by K. Kull
• T. Sebeok on Communication and Evolution
• M. Lissack on Coherence
• A. Sharov on Biosemiotics and Cybernetics
• a long list of Memetics publications on the Web
• Agner Fog's electronic book on "Cultural Selection"
• Memetics page in the Transhuman Web
• Meme Central: Richard Brodie's somewhat commercially motivated memetics intro
• Church of Virus: a "memetically engineered" atheistic religion
• Evolutionary models of scientifictheory change: a thesis by John S. Wilkins
• Ars Electronica Symposium: Memesis: the Future of Evolution
• Daniel Dennett's Center for Cognitive Studies at Tuft University, an "informal, self-selected depot for current work on memes"
• Talk Origins

 

Complexity, Self-Organization and Evolution

• CalResCo, an extensive website about complexity, self-organization and related subjects
• Principia Cybernetica Web of J. Heylighen, containing a very rich and interesting set of papers on complexity, cybernetics, evolution and an innumerable number of links
• Complex Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life: an extensive list of links including conferences
• Phil Goetz's complexity page, including a complexity dictionary
• the Complexity Digest: a weekly list of summaries of articles related to complexity that appeared in various journals, a most useful service provided by G. Mayer-Kress
• Evolution of Complex Systems: Umur Ozkul's collection of thoughts, essay and links
• Complexity Online: a quite elaborate server with Hypermedia papers and pointers to other places
• Complexity International: refereed electronic journal on Complex Systems Research
• Bruce Edmonds's extensive Bibliography on Measures of Complexity
• General Systems Theory and Earth Science: an introduction to systems thinking
• MIT's Systems Dynamics Group
• Whole Systems: a more New Age style application of systems thinking

 

Physical, Chemical, Biological and Cultural evolution

• the History of Evolutionary thought at the Museum of Paleontology
• the Talk.origins is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins
• University of Vienna Dep. of Theoretical Biology, with research on systems theory of evolution, alife, constructivism, cognition and evolutionary epistemology
• Social and Cultural Evolution: a rich collection of on-line publications
• Center for Evolutionary Psychology
• Society for Evolutionary Ethics, founded John David Garcia