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An Overview of Open-Ended Evolution: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution II Special Issue.

Paper summary

An editorial overview organizes open-ended-evolution research and the associated special issues. It surveys approaches, conceptual distinctions, and remaining difficulties, emphasizing that existing artificial systems have not matched biological evolutionary open-endedness.

Relevance to the project

Provides a literature map and vocabulary for separating ongoing novelty, complexity, and higher-level organization in project measurements.

Open-ended evolutionEvaluation methods

An overview is not an experimental demonstration of unbounded evolution.

Source record

Reference ID
doi-10-1162-artl-a-00291
Archived version
Open-access submittedVersion located through OpenAlex; source checked at retrieval
Summary provenance
reference-library/papers/doi-10-1162-artl-a-00291/metadata.json · summary
Review status
initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
Reading scope
Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.