… artificial life and cognitive science have an essential overlap. This review highlights the state
of the art in artificial life … evolutionary robotics, the evolution of complexity and language, and …

This work addresses the question: What are the basic design considerations for creating a
synthetic model of the evolution of living systems (ie an `artificial life' system)? It can also be …

… trend concerns in vitro experiments of RNA reproduction, prebiotic artificial life forms,
synthesis and evolution of RNA chains38, autocatalytic reactions, and osmotic growths39. …

… the study of artificial life is to extend biology to a broader class of life forms than those … We
hope that as the field of artificial life develops one of its … until their complexity and information …

… Whatever organization exists after the complexity threshold for life is passed, we may say that
… life that has evolved on Earth, Artificial Life can contribute to theoretical biology by locating …

… Artificial life (Alife) is a paradigm in which we design an artificial evolutionary system by
simply preparing the necessary conditions for the evolution of complex forms of life. The real …

… This raises a deep question about evolution's creative potential: Does evolution … complexity,
or is the increasing complexity of life just a contingent and accidental by-product of evolution…

… More generally, balance is a tautology, because we describe a posteriori phenomena that
survived/evolved as balanced, between “too few” and “too much” change. Certainly, there can …

… discrepancy between what is expected from evolution, and what is actually obtained from it.
The feeling that artificial evolution and artificial life systems often rely on implicit assumptions …

… the Artificial Life … Artificial Life and organize a large body of citations to the literature in the
field. I would recommend this book as an excellent text for a graduate seminar on Artificial Life, …