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Books on Artifical Life and Related Topics

The number of books on biology, evolutionary theory, learning, development, complex systems, neural networks, and other topics relevant to the study of Artificial Life is enormous, of course, but there is nevertheless a small, identifiable and growing number of books and conference proceedings available on topics most central to the field. A few books, such as John von Neumann's visionary Theory ofSelf-ReproducingAutomata (1966), in which he explicitly put forth many key ideas in the field, are out of print and can best be found in better libraries. These older books appear in the reference lists in several of the books whose descriptions follow, and should be consulted whenever