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Richard A. Watson

Richard A. Watson is a Senior Lecturer in the BIO@ECS Research Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

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Compositional Evolution

The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution
By Richard A. Watson

No biological concept has had greater impact on the way we view ourselves and the world around us than the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin's masterful contribution was to provide an algorithmic model (a formal step-by-step procedure) of how adaptation may take place in biological systems. However, the simple process of linear incremental improvement that he described is only one algorithmic possibility, and certain biological phenomena provide the possibility of implementing alternative processes.

Titles by This Editor

Artificial Life XI

Edited by Seth Bullock, Jason Noble, Richard A. Watson and Mark A. Bedau

Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes in artificial media. The field brings a powerful set of tools to the study of how high-level behavior can arise in systems governed by simple rules of interaction.

Artificial Life IX

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems
Edited by Jordan Pollack, Mark A. Bedau, Phil Husbands, Richard A. Watson and Takashi Ikegami

Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes. The young field brings a powerful set of tools to the study of how high-level behavior can arise in systems governed by simple rules of interaction.