Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939), originally trained as a physician, is a biologist and complex systems researcher, and is most widely known for his promotion of self-organization as a factor that is at least as important as Darwinian natural selection in producing the complexity of biological systems and organisms.

Books and articles

• "Antichaos and Adaptation", Scientific American, August 1991.
• Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (1993) Oxford University Press. Technical text. ISBN 0195079515
• At Home in the Universe (1995) Oxford University Press. Popular treatment of many of the ideas in Origins. ISBN 0195111303
• Investigations (2000) Oxford University Press. Speculations involving a possible definition of life. ISBN 0195121058