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[edit] Ideas about evolution
I ran into Stuart Kauffman at the University of Pennsylvania in the years 1988-1990. Bright guy, his ideas about evolution as a rugged landscape and how evolution can be considered an optimization process on this landscape have to be heard to be believed. Good stuff, in my opinion. Dwmyers 21:23, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
[edit] No physicist
Stuart Kauffman has an M.D. degree and has worked in evolutionary biology, genetics, and the theory of complexity. He is not a physicist, and says as much at the start of chapter 10 of his book Investigations. Yet this article is classified as "within the scope of WikiProject Physics, which collaborates on articles related to physics". Shouldn't it be moved to a different category? --John Walker (fourmilab.ch) 12:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC) Yes you are right he acn be labelled as an biologist or evlotunioary economist
- He may not call himself a physicist, but physicists would definitely regard "complex systems" as home territory, and Kauffman has done his share of work (and popularisation) in that territory. Jheald (talk) 19:32, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
If you have worked with Kauffman you would know he is no Physicist. He, selfadmittedly, is unable to do the most basic mathematics, nor is he able to work with physics concepts to the satisfaction of any physicist. He is more a philosopher, and in that capacity a gifted one. Yet he does consider himself a physicist. In private he will tell you he is the most brilliant evolutionary biologist of the 20th century. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.178.86 (talk) 17:47, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Why a See Also?
I'm not clear why this section exists, and why it links to a list of intelligent design resources. The linked page, especially the content at the anchor, does not relate to Dr. Kauffman's work in OOL or complexity generally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dvunkannon (talk • contribs) 17:47, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for this remark. I agree that chapter didn't have much added value, so I removed it. -- Mdd (talk) 19:07, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
