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This blog title "Evolvability" was available — and it is one of the key phenomena in evolution that I study — so here we are! Let's see who else finds themselves here.

I'll begin by posting links to my papers on the evolution of evolvability:

• Altenberg, L. 2005. Evolvability Suppression to Stabilize Far-Sighted Adaptations. Artificial Life 11 (4): 427-443.
  

• Altenberg, L. 2004. Modularity in Evolution: Some Low-Level Questions. In Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Complex Natural Systems, Diego Rasskin-Gutman and Werner Callebaut, editors. MIT Press, ISBN 0262033267.
  

• Altenberg, L. 2000. Evolvability Checkpoints Against Evolutionary Pathologies. Invited paper for the Evolvability Workshop at the Artificial Life 7 Conference, Portland Oregon.
  

• Wagner, G. P. and L. Altenberg. 1996. Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution 50 (3): 967-976.
  

• Altenberg, L. 1995. Genome growth and the evolution of the genotype-phenotype map. In Evolution and Biocomputation: Computational Models of Evolution, ed. Wolfgang Banzhaf and Frank H. Eeckman. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 899. Springer-Verlag, pp. 205-259.
  

• Altenberg, L. 1994. Evolving better representations through selective genome growth. Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp. 182-187.
  

• Altenberg, L. 1994. Emergent phenomena in genetic programming. In Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, ed. Anthony V. Sebald and Lawrence J. Fogel. World Scientific, pp. 233-241.
  

• Altenberg, L. 1994. The evolution of evolvability in genetic programming. Chapter 3 in Advances in Genetic Programming, ed. Kenneth Kinnear. MIT Press, pp. 47-74.
  

• Altenberg, L. and D. Brutlag. Selection for Modularity in the Genome: Reading Frame Evidence for Exon Shuffling. (Cited in: Doolittle, W.F. 1987. The Origin and Function of Intervening Sequences in DNA: A Review. American Naturalist 130: 915-928; and Doolittle, W.F. 1987. What Introns Have to Tell Us: Hierarchy in Genome Evolution. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 52: 907-913)
  

• Altenberg, L. 1985.
  Knowledge Representation in the Genome: New Genes, Exons, and Pleiotropy. Abstract, Genetics 110: supplement, s41.