@misc{cogprints3217,
          volume = {1},
           title = {The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality},
          author = {William H Calvin},
            year = {1997},
         journal = {Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/3217/},
        abstract = {Selectionism emphasizes carving patterns, memes remind us of minimal replicable patterns, but a full-fledged Darwinian process needs six essential ingredients to keep going, to recursively bootstrap quality from rude beginnings. While there may be situations ("sparse Darwinism") in which a reduced number suffice, another five ingredients, while not essential, greatly enhance the speed and stability of a Darwinian process. While our best examples are drawn from species evolution, the immune response, and evolutionary epistemology, the Darwinian process may well be a major law of the universe, right up there with chemical bonds as a prime generator of interesting combinations that discover stratified stabilities. 
}
}

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