Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-412) and index.
Contents:
Origin of life -- Molecular basis of life -- Molecular evolution and quasi-species -- Stochastic processes -- Spin glass model of the origin of life -- Origin of the genetic code -- Hypercycles -- Artificial life -- Immune system -- Bell's model -- Adaptive walks -- Maturation of the immune system -- Symmetric immune network model -- Shape space network model -- AIDS -- Brain -- Neurons and synapses -- Memory -- McCulloch-Pitts neural net -- Perceptrons -- Connectionism -- Attractor neural networks -- Unsupervised learning -- Evolutionary learning. Differential equations -- Statistics primer -- Computer simulation.
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