Evolution is a critical challenge for many areas of science,
technology and development of society. The book reviews general
evolutionary facts such as origin of life and evolution of the
genome and clues to evolution through simple systems. Emerging
areas of science such as "systems biology" and "bio-complexity" are
founded on the idea that phenomena need to be understood in the
context of highly interactive processes operating at different
levels and on different scales. This is where physics meets
complexity in nature, and where we must begin to learn about
complexity if we are to understand it. Similarly, there is an
increasingly urgent need to understand and predict the evolutionary
behavior of highly interacting man-made systems, in areas such as
communications and transport, which permeate the modern world. The
same applies to the evolution of human networks such as social,
political and financial systems, where technology has tended to
vastly increase both the complexity and speed of interaction, which
is sometimes effectively instantaneous. The book contains reviews
on such diverse areas as evolution experiments with microorganisms,
the origin and evolution of viruses, evolutionary dynamics of genes
and environment in cancer development, aging as an
evolution-facilitating program, evolution of vision and evolution
of financial markets.
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