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November 8, 2012
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John Long, Professor of Biology and Cognitive Science at Vassar College, discusses his book Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology, chosen by the New Scientist as one of the top five books published in the spring of 2012. "Though [Long] is a gifted storyteller, this is no simple fish tale. The engineering draw of robots is clear, but Long also emphasises the value for science, showing how robots can serve as physical models of biological organisms; evolving biorobots can shed light on why organisms evolved as they did; and robot interaction can illustrate coevolutionary dynamics, as between predators and prey…. With Darwin's Devices, Long reminds us that science is always an adventure, and that new technology only drives us faster and further into the unknown." ~ Josh Bongard in the New Scientist.
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Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Biomechanics, Cybernetics, Embodiment, Monograph Publishing, Natural Selection, Peer Review, Posthumanism, Representation, Robots
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