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POSITIVE FEEDBACK MODEL. "That is, a connection between two components or nodes in this network causes them to exhibit correlated behaviour, and when nodes have correlated behaviours this causes natural selection to create or strengthen the connection between them." Unpack slowly. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

NEURAL NETWORK EVOLUTION. "Connectionism recognises that the cleverness of cognition does not derive from the cleverness of the individual neural parts but from the organisation of the relationships between them." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

POSITIVE FEEDBACK HYPOTHESIS. "We investigate the hypothesis that the evolution of developmental, ecological and reproductive organisations are all subject to the same underlying organisational principle, a simple principle of positive feedback between the topology of an interaction network and the behaviours that the network structure governs." View in LinkedIn

REINFORCEMENT EVOLUTION. "The evolutionary conditions that correspond to reinforcement learning are simply those that reward changes to interactions that improve fitness (e.g. changes to a gene network that increase fitness by changing the gene expression pattern/phenotype that the network produces." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

GENERATING SOLUTION VARIATIONS. "The significance of this is that the model can then be used to recognise or generate new examples that have structural similarities with those that have been rewarded in the past but are not identical to them, and relatedly, examples that are far apart in ‘solution space’ can be placed next to each in ‘model space’." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

POSITIVE FEEDBACK EVOLUTION. "The basis of evolutionary connectionism is that the simple principle of positive feedback on the organisation of a system, well-understood in the context of neural network models, is also common to the evolution of developmental, ecological and reproductive organisations." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

CONNECTIONISM. "We introduce the term “evolutionary connectionism” to recognise that, by processes that are functionally equivalent to connectionist models of memory and learning, natural selection acting on the relationships within and between evolutionary entities can result in organisations that produce complex system-level behaviours in evolutionary systems and improve the adaptive capabilities of natural selection over time." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

SONG OF DARWIN. "The more I study nature, the more I become impressed […] that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations [acquired through natural selection] transcend in an incomparable degree [those] which the most fertile imagination of the most imaginative man could suggest with unlimited time at his disposal." https://lnkd.in/eykUy37 View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION. "The evolution of life, from simple organic compounds in a primordial soup to the amazing diversity of contemporary organisms, has taken roughly 3.5 billion years. How can we explain the evolution of increasingly complex organisms over this period?" http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10112.full View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY IS NOT ENOUGH. "For example, archaea and eubacteria formed eukaryotic cells, and cells formed multicellular organisms. However, not all cooperative groups are en route to major transitions." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10112.full View in LinkedIn