Chenmei Xu has made an evolvability web page
Paul Marrow has made an evolvability web page
This is a new page, under construction, started Feb 15, 2000.
I will begin by attempting to assemble a bibliography on the subject of evolvability.
Dawkins, Richard (1989) The evolution of evolvability. In: Artficial Life, C Langton (ed).
Kirschner, Marc, and John Gerhart. 1998. Evolvability. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 95:8420-8427.
Mary Jane West-Eberhard, July 1998. Evolution in the light of developmental and cell biology and vice versa. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 95:8417-8419. [a commentary on the Kirschner & Gerhart paper in the same volume]
Wagner, Gunter, and Lee Altenberg. 1996. Perspective: Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution 50(3):967-976.
Marrow, Paul. 1999. Evolvability: Evolution, Computation, Biology. In: Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Program, A. S. Wu (editor), pp. 30-33. ( postscript, 184KB). ( PowerPoint, 120KB). (BT Complex Systems Laboratory)
Ray, Tom, and Chenmei Xu. 2000. Measures of Evolvability in Tierra. Proc. of The Fifth Int. Symp. on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 5th'00), Masanori Sugisaka and Hiroshi Tanaka [eds.], Oita, Japan, I-12 - I-15.
Ray, Tom. 1999. Some thoughts on evolvability. ( PowerPoint, 5.3Mb). (This is a draft manuscript, currently under development.) (ATR Laboratories/University of Oklahoma)
Ray, T. S. 1994. Evolution, complexity, entropy, and artificial reality. Physica D 75: 239-263. Download entire document.
Bedau, Mark. 1999. Quantifying the extent and intensity of evolution. In: Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Program, A. S. Wu (editor), pp. 34-37. ( postscript, 89KB). ( postscript presentation slides, 42KB). (Reed College)
Glickmann, Matt. 1999. Comparing mechanisms for evolving evolvability. In: Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Program, A. S. Wu (editor), pp. 38-41. (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Ofria, Charles. 1999. Robustness and evolvability of computer languages. In: Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Program, A. S. Wu (editor), p. 42. (Michigan State University)
Turney, Peter. 1999. Increasing evolvability considered as a large-scale trend in evolution. In: Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Program, A. S. Wu (editor), pp. 43-46. ( postscript, 670KB), ( PDF, 46KB). (National Research Council of Canada)
Wagner, Gunter. 1999. The evolvability of complex organisms: the quantitative genetic perspective. In: Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Program, A. S. Wu (editor), pp. 47-50. ( postscript, 248KB). ( PDF presentation slides, 46KB). (Yale University)
Suzuki, Hideaki. 2000. Minimum Density of Functional Proteins to Make a System Evolvable. Proc. of The Fifth Int. Symp. on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 5th'00), Masanori Sugisaka and Hiroshi Tanaka [eds.], Oita, Japan, 26-28.
Wagner, Andreas. 1996. Does evolutionary plasticity evolve? Evolution 50(3):1008-1023.
Altenberg, Lee. 1995. Genome Growth and the Evolution of the Genotype-Phenotype Map. In Evolution and Biocomputation: Computational Models of Evolution. Wolfgang Banzhaf and Frank H. Eeckman (Eds.). pp. 205-259. Berlin: Springer, 1995. (University of Hawaii)
Altenberg, Lee. 1994. The Evolution of Evolvability in Genetic Programming. Chapter 3 in Advances in Genetic Programming, ed. Kenneth Kinnear. pp. 47--74. MIT Press, Cambridge. (University of Hawaii)
Riedl, Rupert J. 1977. A systems-analytical approach to macroevolutionary phenomena. Quarterly Review of Biology 52: 351-370. [The earliest reference I know of discussing the evolution of modular genotype-phenotype maps and evolvability.--LA]