Can Darwinian mechanisms make novel discoveries?: Learning from discoveries made by evolving neural networks

Foundations of Science

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 225-238

  Pennock, Robert T ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectionism; Evolutionary epistemology; Genetic algorithms; Neural networks; Scientific discovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847305307     PISSN: 12331821     EISSN: 15728471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011356415685     Document Type: Article

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