Table of Contents:
  • An Introduction to Computational Development
  • Relationships Between Development and Evolution
  • The Principles of Cell Signalling
  • From Genotype to Phenotype
  • Plasticity & Reprogramming of Differentiated Cells in Amphibian Regeneration
  • Qualitative Modelling & Simulation of Developmental Regulatory Networks
  • Models for Pattern Formation & the Position-Specific Activation of Genes
  • Signalling in Multicellular Models of Plant Development
  • Computing An Organism
  • Broken Symmetries & Biological Patterns
  • Using Mechanics to Map Genotype to Phenotype
  • How Synthetic Biology Provides Insights into Contact-Mediated Lateral Inhibition & other Mechanisms
  • The Evolution of Evolvability
  • Artificial Genomes as Models of Gene Regulation
  • Evolving the Program for a Cell
  • Combining Developmental Processes & Their Physics in an Artificial Evolutionary System to Evolve Shapes
  • Evolution of Differentiated Multi-threaded Digital Organisms
  • Artificial Life Models of Neural Development Evolving Computational Neural Systems Using Synthetic Developmental Mechanisms
  • A Developmental Model for the Evolution of Complete Autonomous Agents
  • Harnessing Morphogenesis
  • Evolvable Hardware.