Submitted
Fernando, C. (2011) Neural Edelmanism and Neural Darwinism. Invited for The Evolutionary Review. Download here.
Fernando, C. (2011). Darwinian Neurodynamics of Cortical Rewiring for Instrumental Learning. Submitted to Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.
Virgo, N. Fernando, C. Bigge, B. Husbands, P. (2011). The Nucleotide Paradox: A physical model of nucleotides on an air-hockey table.Submitted to PNAS. See video here,
Fernando, C., Vasas, V., Santos, M., Kauffman, S., Szathmary, E., (2011). Natural Selection of Autocatalytic Sets Enclosed in Compartments. Submitted to PLos Comp Bio
Published
Fernando C, Vasas V, Szathmáry E, Husbands P (2011) Evolvable Neuronal Paths: A Novel Basis for Information and Search in the Brain. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23534. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023534 Download here.
Fernando, C. Kampis, G., Szathmary, E. (2011) Evolvability of natural and artificial systems. To appear in Procedia Computer Science. Download here.
Fernando, C. Vasas, V. Szathmary, E. Husbands, P. (2011). Natural Selection of Paths in Networks. Pre-print on Nature Preceedings Available as preprint here.
Virgo, N. Fernando, C. Bigge, B. Husbands, P. (2011) The Elongation Catastrophe in Physical Self-Replicators. ECAL 2011 (Paris) See video here,
Fernando, C. Co-Evolution of Lexical and Syntactic Classifiers during a Language Game (2011) Evolutionary Intelligence 4(3):165-182. Download pre-print here.
Fernando, C. Symbol Manipulation and Rule Learning in Spiking Neuronal Networks (2011) Journal of Theoretical Biology 275(1):29-41. Download here.
Fernando, C., Goldstein, R., Szathmary, E. (2010) The Neuronal Replicator Hypothesis. Neural Computation 22(11):2809–2857. Download here.
Fernando, C., Goldstein, RA; Husbands, P and Stekel, DJ (2010) In silico biology. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 477-480 PubMed abstract
Fernando, C. Vasas, V. (to appear) The Cooptive Evolution of Chemical Networks and the Origin of Evolvability. In Genesis: Origin of life on Earth and Planet“. Springer Download here
Fernando, C. (2010). The Origin of Informational Replicators by Serial Dilution of a Primordial Soup. Artificial Life XII (12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Odense, Denmark). MIT Press. Download here. See software here.
Fernando, C. (2010) Neuronal Replicators Solve the Stability Plasticity Dilemma. GECCO 2010 Portland Oregon. Download draft here. See software here.
Fernando C, and Szathmáry E (2010) Chemical, neuronal and linguistic replicators. In: Evolution: The Extended Synthesis. Edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd Muller. MIT Press. Download proof here
Fernando, C. and Szathmáry, E. (2010) Natural Selection in the Brain. Chapter 20. Torwards a Theory of Thinking Vol 2. Springer/Parmenides book series. Download here.
Szathmáry E, Fernando C (In Press) Concluding remarks. Extending the Major Transitions in Evolution Sterelny, K, Editor. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press. Download here.
Valijarvi, R.L. Fernando, C. Goldstein, R.A. (2010) A Model of the Mechanisms of Language Extinction and Revitalization Strategies to Save Endangered Languages. Human Evolution. 81(1): 47-75. Download here. Link here.
Bush, D, Fernando, C. & Husbands, P. (2009) Neuronal Copying of Spike Pattern Generators. Abstract for Bernstein Conference in Computational Neuroscience (BCCN 2009), Frankfurt, Germany. Download poster here. Download abstract here
Fernando C, Karishma KK, Szathmáry E (2008) Copying and Evolution of Neuronal Topology. PLoS ONE 3(11): e3775. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003775. Online here. Published 20th November 2008 Download here
Fernando, C. Liekens, A.M.L., Bingle, L.E.H., Beck, C., Lenser, T., Stekel, D.J. ,Rowe, J.E. (2008) Molecular circuits for associative learning in single-celled organisms. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Pre-published online doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0344. Download here.
Izquierdo, E.J. & Fernando, C. (2008) The Evolution of Evolvability in Gene Transcription Networks. (Proceedings of Alife XI, Southampton 2008). Download pdf here.
Fernando, C. (2008) Book Review: The Principles of Life by Tibor Ganti. Artificial Life.Journal of Artificial Life Fall 2008, Vol. 14, No. 4, Pages 467-470. Download here. Link here
Fernando, C. and Rowe, J. (2007) The Origin of Autonomous Agents (Accepted for Biosystems Special Issue on Autonomy. Eds. Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo & Xabier Barandieran.) Download draft doc file here (right click). See supplementary material here. Download proof here.
Paenke, I., Sendhoff, B., Rowe, J., Fernando, C. (2007) On the Adaptive Disadvantage of Lamarckianism in Rapidly Changing Environments. (Proceedings 9th European Conference on Artificial Life. Lisbon, Portugal. September 10-14, 2007) Download pdf.
Fernando, C., Jones, B. Stekel, D. (2007) Is there a Liquid State Machine in the Bacterium Escherichia Coli? (IEEE Artificial Life, April 2007, Honolulu). Download draft here.
Fernando, C. and Rowe, J. (2007a) Natural Selection in Chemical Evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology 247:152-167 See supplementary material here. Submitted paper here Final version here.
Fernando, C., Von Kiedrowski, G. and Szathmary, E. (2007) A Stochastic Model of Nonenzymatic Nucleic Acid Replication: ‘‘Elongators’’ Sequester Replicators. Journal of Molecular Evolution 64:572–585 (Simulaton: Download XCode C++ files.). (Simulation: Download command line C++ files). Download final version here.
Fernando, C. and Penn, A. (2006) The Origin of Autonomy at the Chemical and Ecosystem Levels. (Autonomy Workshop Paper, Artifiicial Life X, Bloomington, Indiana, USA). Download pdf.
Maron, M. and Fernando, C. (2006) Food Webs and the Evolution of Organism Complexity. (Complexity Workshop Paper, Artificial Life X, Bloomington, Indiana, USA). Download pdf.
Liekens, A.M.L. and Fernando, C. (2006) Turing Complete Catalytic Particle Computers. (Submitted to Unconventional Computing Conference, York, 2006. See review here). Download pdf. Published at ECAL 2007, LNAI 4648, pp. 1202–1211, 2007. See preview here
Fernando, C. (2005) The Evolution of the Chemoton. DPhil Thesis (version: 27th September 2005). Download pdf. Download pdf.zip
Fernando, C. (2005) The Good Symbiont. ECAL 2005 - Proceedings of the VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life. University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent (UK). Download pdf. Mathematica.nb.zip file.
Szathmary, E, Santos, M, Fernando, C. (2005) Evolutionary Potential and Requirements for Minimal Protocells. Topics in Current Chemistry (2005). 23rd August. DOI 10.1007/tcc001 Springr-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Download pdf.
McGregor, S. and Fernando, C. (2005) Levels of Description: A Novel Approach to Dynamical Hierarchies. Journal of Artificial Life (Species Issue on Dynamical Hierarchies) 11: 459 - 472 Download pdf.
Fernando, C and Di Paolo, E. A. (2004). The Chemoton: A model for the origin of long RNA templates. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9 Boston, September 12th-15th, 2004. MIT Press Download pdf.zip (3.5MB).
Fernando, C. and Sojakka, S. (2003). Pattern recognition in a bucket. In Banzhaf, W., Christaller, T., Dittrich, P., Kim, J.T. and Ziegler, J., editors, Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2003), pages 588-597. Springer. Download pdf. (Winner of Best Paper Award). Download a video describing the paper here.