Inhalt

•  
   Acknowledgements
•  
   Introduction
•  
  The Paradigm: Embryogenesis
•  
   Introduction
•  
  Building a Multicellular Organism
•  
   An Overview
•  
   Genes and Differential Gene Expression During Embryogenesis
•  
   Cellular Communication
•  
   The Four Stages of Embryogenesis
•  
   The Evolutionary Perspective on Embryogenesis
•  
   Summary
•  
  Simulation of Development
•  
   Introduction
•  
  Related Work
•  
   Dynamics of Development – Control Mechanisms
•  
   Cellular Simulation – Phenotypic Mechanisms
•  
   Discussion of Related Work
•  
  The Simulation Environment
•  
   Control Mechanisms
•  
   Phenotypic Mechanisms
•  
   Evolution Strategy
•  
  Graph-based Development
•  
   Introduction
•  
  Evolving Dynamical Motifs
•  
   Introduction
•  
   Experimental Setup
•  
   Results
•  
   Discussion
•  
  Developmental System Design
•  
   Introduction
•  
   Experiment S: The Simplified Setup
•  
   Experiment C: The Complete Setup
•  
   Fitness Function
•  
   Results
•  
   Discussion
•  
  Vector Field Embryogeny
•  
   Introduction
•  
  Evolving Differentiation
•  
   Introduction
•  
   Experimental Setup
•  
   Results
•  
   Discussion
•  
  Higher Level Principles of Development in Vector Field Embryogeny
•  
   Introduction
•  
   Hierarchy in Vector Field Embryogeny
•  
   Heterochrony in Vector Field Embryogeny
•  
   Allometry in Vector Field Embryogeny
•  
   Evolving Differentiation Using Two Stage Spatial Hierarchy
•  
   Evolving differentiation with and without allometry
•  
   Evolving Differentiation Using Hierarchy and Allometry
•  
   Evolving Differentiation Using Heterochrony
•  
   Discussion
•  
  Evolvability of Graph- and Vector Field Embryogeny-representations
•  
   Introduction
•  
   A Prerequisite: Strong Causality and the Genotype to Phenotype Map
•  
  A Phenotype for Dynamical Systems
•  
   Discrete Fields
•  
   Field Difference
•  
   Causality in Graph Based Modeling
•  
   Causality in Vector Field Embryogeny Based Modeling
•  
   Comparison of Graph Based and Vector Field Embryogeny Based Modeling
•  
   Discussion
•  
   Conclusion
•  
   G P Plots
•  
   Sequence Diagrams of the Artificial Development-Simulation Environment and the Vector Field Embryogeny Simulation
•  
   Bi-Linear Energy Calculation
•  
   Bibliography