3 papers
q-bio.PE2024
Cumulative, Adaptive, Open-ended Change through Self-Other Reorganization: Reply to comment on 'An evolutionary process without variation and selection'
Liane Gabora, Mike Steel
Self-Other Reorganization (SOR) is a theory of how interacting entities or individuals, each of which can be described as an autocatalytic network, collectively exhibit cumulative,…
q-bio.PE2024
An evolutionary process without variation and selection
Liane Gabora, Mike Steel
Natural selection successfully explains how organisms accumulate adaptive change despite that traits acquired over a lifetime are eliminated at the end of each generation. However,…
physics.soc-ph2024
How Does Culture Evolve?
Liane Gabora
This chapter synthesizes evidence from cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychological studies, and computational models for a complex systems inspired theory o…