Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

Recent work on human vocal production demonstrates that certain irregular phenomena
seen in human pathological voices and baby crying result from nonlinearities in the vocal …

In evolutionary computation, the fitness function normally measures progress toward an
objective in the search space, effectively acting as an objective function. Through deception …

Winner of the William James Book Award Winner of the inaugural Expanded Reason Award
A wide-ranging exploration of the role of childhood experiences in adult morality. Moral …

One of the most important roles a computer can play is to act as a simulator of physical
processes. When a com puter mimics the behavior of a system, such as the flow of air over …

Is the history of life a series of accidents or a drama scripted by selfish genes? Is there an"
essential" human nature, determined at birth or in a distant evolutionary past? What should …

This paper establishes a link between the challenge of solving highly ambitious problems in
machine learning and the goal of reproducing the dynamics of open-ended evolution in …

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biology This is a concise, comprehensive, and
accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the …

Life on earth is characterized by three striking phenomena that demand explanation:
adaptation—the marvelous fit between organism and environment; diversity—the great …

The primary foundation for contemplating the possible forms of life elsewhere in the
Universe is the evolutionary trends that have marked life on Earth. For its first three billion …