title: The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality
creator: Calvin, William H
subject: Evolution
description: 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.  
date: 1997
type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/3217/1/1997JMemetics.htm
identifier:   Calvin, William H  (1997) The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/3217/