Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing

Abstract

Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing Artificial Life, but very much popular science; at most a first, very basic, overview. page 185: Nature has come up not only with ingenious solutions to specific problems - for example, structural designs such as eyes or wings - but indeed has found (and founded) entirely new processes to aid in the emergence of complex organisms. Two of the most important ones are ontogeny (the development of a multicellular organism from a single mother cell) and learning