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Dynamics of a birth-death process based on combinatorial innovation
Mike Steel, Wim Hordijk, Stuart A. Kauffman
A feature of human creativity is the ability to take a subset of existing items (e.g. objects, ideas, or techniques) and combine them in various ways to give rise to new items, whi…
Theory of chemical evolution of molecule compositions in the universe, in the Miller-Urey experiment and the mass distribution of interstellar and intergalactic molecules
Stuart A. Kauffman, David P. Jelenfi, Gabor Vattay
Chemical evolution is essential in understanding the origins of life. We present a theory for the evolution of molecule masses and show that small molecules grow by random diffusio…
A Quantum Model of Exaptation: Incorporating Potentiality into Evolutionary Theory
Liane Gabora, Eric O. Scott, Stuart Kauffman
The phenomenon of preadaptation, or exaptation (wherein a trait that originally evolved to solve one problem is co-opted to solve a new problem) presents a formidable challenge to…