Synthetic transitions: Towards a new synthesis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1701, 2016, Pages

  Solé, Ricard ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Biology; Evolutionary robotics; Major transitions; Phase transitions; Synthetic

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIOSPHERE; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LANGUAGE; MAPPING METHOD; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; LIFE; PHYSICS; ROBOTICS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIFE; PHYSICS; ROBOTICS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84978734506     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0438     Document Type: Article

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