Stuart Kauffman

Kauffman is presently a professor at the University Of Calgary with a joint appointment between biological sciences and physics and astronomy. He is also an iCORE chair.

He received Bachelor's degrees from Dartmouth ( 1960 ) and Oxford University ( 1963 ) and a medical degree (M.D.) from the University Of California, San Francisco in 1968 . After a brief medical career, he moved into Developmental Genetics and held appointments with the University Of Chicago and from 1975 to 1995 he was an Associate, and later, full Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University Of Pennsylvania . Kauffman was also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship from 1987-1992.

Kauffman rose to prominence through his association with the . As Of 2003 Kauffman served on the NuTech board of directors.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

''Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution'' ( 1993 ) Oxford University Press. Technical text. ISBN 0195079515

''At Home in the Universe'' ( 1995 ) Oxford University Press. Popular treatment of many of the ideas in ''Origins''. ISBN 0195111303

''Investigations'' ( 2000 ) Oxford University Press. Speculations involving a possible definition of life. ISBN 0195121058

''Prolegomenon to a General Biology'', in: William A. Dembski, Michael Ruse (eds.), Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0521829496

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