These are scans of papers in my personal reprint library that have been crucial for some of my work in evolutionary theory, or that of others. There are some miscellaneous other papers as well. They were published before the digital age, and are difficult to obtain. I have cited them in my own publications, so for those wishing to pursue these citations, I provide them here for scholary use (apologies for the underlining and notes). Click on the links to download the PDF file of the paper:
A Corrigendum: I had typed the title into my BibTeX file as “Classification of Selection-Migration Structures and Conditions for a Protected Polymorphism” (instead of “Classifications”), and did not realize the error until several publications had already come out with it. But, as a Google Scholar search will affirm, I am in good company among those who have mutated the title thus. Hopefully, those looking for the paper under that title will find this page. The mutation constitutes a polymorphism at a frequency of 115/(289+ 115)= 0.28 (Google, as of Oct. 2011) or 27/(57+27)=0.32 (Google Scholar). The mutation was de novo in my case, since Sam himself had given me the reprint. But other cases might be replications within the citation chain. It might make an interesting evolutionary bibliographic study.
Original files at Mark Satin's website: New Options Newsletter: Transformational, Post-liberal, Prophetic. The back story on New Options is detailed in Chapter 7 of Satin's 2023 memoir, Up From Socialism My 60-Year Search for a Healing New Radical Politics.
It was through this report that I learned that there was a whole European “school” with interest in the evolution of evolvability and the problem I called “knowledge representation in the genome”. I found it when I was doing my initial literature search in 1982 on what if anything had been done in this field. Here I learned of the work of Rupert Riedl and Günter Wagner, which would lead to our collaboration.
“Throughout the history of religious controversies between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages Christianity was on the defensive. The Christians considered themselves called upon to prove the claims they made on behalf of Jesus by endeavouring to show that the vague prophetic promises were all fulfilled in Christ. The Jews had no counter claims to make; they simply refused to be impressed.”“The sayings of Jesus ... will be considered as part of the maxims of the anonymous body of the wise, of blessed memory, who express the national genius of the people, not as those of an inspired individual to be worshipped and exalted above all others.”