Modularity - Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems

Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.

About the author

The late Werner Callebaut was Scientific Manager of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, and Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy of Science at University of Vienna.

Diego Rasskin-Gutman is Research Associate and Head of the Theoretical Biology Research Group at the Institute Cavanilles for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain.

Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) was an influential psychologist and political scientist, awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics and the 1975 Turing Award (with Allen Newell). His many published books include Models of Bounded Rationality and Models of My Life (both published by the MIT Press)..

Product details

• Assisted by: Werner Callebaut (Editor), Diego Rasskin-Gutman (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2009
• EAN: 9780262513265
• ISBN: 978-0-262-51326-5
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering