Conflict, Cooperation and Creativity in Complex Systems - Reading Materials

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Recommended Reading for Participants:

- Dean Simonton:

• 1. Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity, (Oxford University Press, 1999)
• 2. Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist , (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

- Richard Rhodes:

• 1. The Making of the Atomic Bomb , (Simon & Schuster, 1995)

- Richard E. Michod:

• 1. Michod, R.E. 2007. Evolution of individuality during the transition from unicellular to multicellular life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 104: 8613-8618. Link to PDF
• 2. Michod, R. E. 2003. Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of complexity. In H.Lipson, E.K.Antonsson, and J.R.Koza, eds. Computational Synthesis: From basic building blocks to high level functionality. AAAI Press, Stanford, CA. Link to PDF

- Jessica Flack:

• 1. Complex Forms Evolving (From 2007 Santa Fe Institute Bulletin). To receive a copy please email Kay Frew
• 2. Flack, J. C., Girvan, M., de Waal, F. B. M. & Krakauer, D. C. Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates. Nature, 439, 426-429. (2006). Link to PDF
• 3. Flack, J. C. & de Waal, F.B.M. Context modulates signal meaning in primate communication. PNAS- Track 2, 104, 1581-1586 (2007). Link to PDF

- Aaron Clauset:

• 1. Aaron Clauset, Maxwell Young, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. Scale Invariance in the Severity of Terrorism. Journal of Conflict Resolution 2007 51: 58-87.
• 2. Aaron Clauset, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, M. E. J. Newman. Power-law distributions in empirical data.

- David Krakauer:

• 1. Erwin, D. and Krakauer, D.C. Insights into Innovation. Science 304: 1117-1119 (2004)