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    Gifford Lecture 1: Genetic creativity: diversity and complexity in natural history
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
    Central to the contemporary Darwinian view is emerging diversity and complexity. Genes are critical in this historic composition. In physics and chemistry, there is matter and energy, but in biology there is proactive information. Scientists divide over whether such evolution is contingent or directional. Elements of trial and error are incorporated in a searching generative process, analogous to genetic algorithms in computing.