At 10:25 AM 2/7/2005 -0500, you wrote:
I have just finished reading Roger
Lewin's Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos, which was published
in 1992.
Can anyone recommend any literature that has pursued the complexity
hypothesis regarding the evolution of morphologies?
Thanks,
Bill
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William P. Chaisson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
607-387-3892
You might want to look at Dan McShea's papers
http://www.biology.duke.edu/mcshealab/.
Also see, for fun:
http://www.biota.org/
- Roy
P.S. Whatever "intelligent designer" came up with my back and
knees should be fired for incompetence!
Roy E. Plotnick
Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
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