Principles of Evolution

1. Introduction
Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

2. Physical Principles of Evolution
Peter Schuster

3. The Interplay of Replication, Variation and Selection in the Dynamics of Evolving Populations
Richard A. Blythe

4. A Simple General Model of Evolutionary Dynamics
Stefan Thurner

5. Can We Recognize an Innovation? Perspective from an Evolving Network Model
Sanjay Jain, Sandeep Krishna

6. How Stochastic Dynamics Far from Equilibrium Can Create Nonrandom Patterns
Gunter M. Schütz

7. Structure Formation in the Universe
Matthias Bartelmann

8. The Need for Quantum Cosmology
Claus Kiefer

9. Self-Organization in Cells
Leif Dehmelt, Philippe Bastiaens

10. Approach of Complex-Systems Biology to Reproduction and Evolution
Kunihiko Kaneko

11. Wet Artificial Life: The Construction of Artificial Living Systems
Harold Fellermann

12. Towards a Minimal System for Cell Division
Petra Schwille

13. Bacterial Games
Erwin Frey, Tobias Reichenbach

14. Darwin and the Evolution of Human Cooperation
Karl Sigmund, Christian Hilbe

15. Similarities Between Biological and Social Networks in Their Structural Organization
Byungnam Kahng, Deokjae Lee, Pureun Kim

16. From Swarms to Societies: Origins of Social Organization
Alexander S. Mikhailov

Keywords: Physics, Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity, Evolutionary Biology, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences