"3217","The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality","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.  ","http://cogprints.org/3217/","Calvin, William H","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Calvin, William H</span>     (1997)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/3217/\"><em>The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality.</em></a>       [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]           ","","1997"