Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Generalizing Evolutionary Theory: 1. Replicator theories 2. Ontologies of evolution and cultural transmission Part II. Modeling Information Flow in Evolutionary Processes: 3. Population dynamics 4. Information theory 5. Selection as an information-transfer process 6. Multilevel information transfer 7. Information in internal states Part III. Meaning Conventions and Normativity: 8. Primitive content 9. Is and ought Epilogue: Paley's Watch and other stories Notes Appendix: proof of information gain under frequency-independent discrete replicator dynamics for population of n types References Index.

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