Abstract
This document is the Special Issue of the First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe (EDU 2008).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Evolution and Development of the Universe |
Editors | Clément Vidal |
Number of pages | 355 |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2010 |
Event | First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Duration: 8 Oct 2008 → 9 Oct 2008 http://evodevouniverse.com/wiki/index.php/Conference_2008 |
Publication series
Name | Foundations of Science |
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Publisher | Springer |
Number | 2 |
Volume | 15 |
ISSN (Print) | 1233-1821 |
Conference
Conference | First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe |
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Country/Territory | France |
City | Paris |
Period | 8/10/08 → 9/10/08 |
Other | The underlying paradigm for cosmology is theoretical physics. The EDU research community explores how it might be extended by including insights from evolutionary developmental biology. In the neo-Darwinian paradigm, adaptive evolutionary development allows the production of ordered and complex structures. More specifically, we can distinguish evolutionary processes which are stochastic and contingently adaptive and developmental processes which produce systemically statistically predictable structures and trajectories internal to the developmental cycle. By analogy with the evolutionary development of two genetically identical twins, would two initially parametrically identical universes each exhibit unpredictably separate and unique evolutionary variation over their lifespan, and at the same time, a broad set of predictable developmental milestones and shared structure and function between them? More generally, can we model our universe as an evolutionary developmental system? |
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Keywords
- evolution
- development
- universe