DPhil Thesis: Comments Welcome...

Hello.

Here is the final draft of my DPhil thesis, `` Evolutionary Simulation Models: On their character and application to problems concerning the evolution of natural signalling systems'', stored as a compressed postscript file.

It comprises eight (8) chapters, as follows...

  • 0. Frontmatter

  • 1. Introduction

  • 2. Evolutionary Simulation Modelling

  • 3. The Evolutionary Perspective

  • 4. Prospects for Artificial Co-Evolutionary Design

  • 5. The Evolution of Natural Signalling Systems

  • 6. The Evolution of Symmetrical Signals

  • 7. The Evolution of Honest Signals

  • 8. Conclusions

  • 9. Bibliography

    Comments on the thesis are very welcome. Please email me.

    Especially welcome are comments concerning...

  • Typos, punctuation, grammar, mathematical notation, stylistic matters

  • Suitability of material for biology/AI/A-Life people

  • References to important work which are missing

  • Conceptual or mathematical errors

  • Structural or thematic problems (e.g., this argument is in the wrong place)

    Seth Bullock, October '97.