Izquierdo, E.J. & Fernando, C. (2008) The Evolution of Evolvability in Gene Transcription Networks. (Submitted to Alife XI, Southampton 2008). Download pdf here.
Fernando, C. (2008) Book Review: The Principles of Life by Tibor Ganti. Artificial Life (to be published). Download here.
Fernando, C. and Rowe, J. (2007) The Origin of Autonomous Agents (Accepted for Biosystems Special Issue. Eds. Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo & Xabier Barandieran.) Download draft doc file here (right click). See supplementary material here. Download proof here.
Paenke, I., Sendhoff, B., Rowe, J., Fernando, C. (2007) On the Adaptive Disadvantage of Lamarckianism in Rapidly Changing Environments. (Submitted to ECAL 2007) Download pdf.
Fernando, C., Jones, B. Stekel, D. (2007) Is there a Liquid State Machine in the Bacterium Escherichia Coli? (IEEE Artificial Life, April 2007, Honolulu). Download draft here.
Fernando, C. and Rowe, J. (2007a) Natural Selection in Chemical Evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology 247:152-167 See supplementary material here. Submitted paper here Final version here.
Fernando, C., Von Kiedrowski, G. and Szathmary, E. (2007) A Stochastic Model of Nonenzymatic Nucleic Acid Replication: ‘‘Elongators’’ Sequester Replicators. Journal of Molecular Evolution 64:572–585 (Simulaton: Download XCode C++ files.). (Simulation: Download command line C++ files). Download final version here.
Fernando, C. and Penn, A. (2006) The Origin of Autonomy at the Chemical and Ecosystem Levels. (Autonomy Workshop Paper, Artifiicial Life X, Bloomington, Indiana, USA). Download pdf.
Maron, M. and Fernando, C. (2006) Food Webs and the Evolution of Organism Complexity. (Complexity Workshop Paper, Artificial Life X, Bloomington, Indiana, USA). Download pdf.
Liekens, A.M.L. and Fernando, C. (2006) Turing Complete Catalytic Particle Computers. (Submitted to Unconventional Computing Conference, York, 2006. See review here). Download pdf.
Fernando, C. (2005) The Evolution of the Chemoton. DPhil Thesis (version: 27th September 2005). Download pdf. Download pdf.zip
Fernando, C. (2005) The Good Symbiont. ECAL 2005 - Proceedings of the VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life. University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent (UK). Download pdf. Mathematica.nb.zip file.
Szathmary, E, Santos, M, Fernando, C. (2005) Evolutionary Potential and Requirements for Minimal Protocells. Topics in Current Chemistry (2005). 23rd August. DOI 10.1007/tcc001 Springr-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Download pdf.
McGregor, S. and Fernando, C. (2005) Levels of Description: A Novel Approach to Dynamical Hierarchies. Journal of Artificial Life (Species Issue on Dynamical Hierarchies) 11: 459 - 472 Download pdf.
Fernando, C and Di Paolo, E. A. (2004). The Chemoton: A model for the origin of long RNA templates. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE'9 Boston, September 12th-15th, 2004. MIT Press Download pdf.zip (3.5MB).
Fernando, C. and Sojakka, S. (2003). Pattern recognition in a bucket. In Banzhaf, W., Christaller, T., Dittrich, P., Kim, J.T. and Ziegler, J., editors, Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2003), pages 588-597. Springer. Download pdf. (Winner of Best Paper Award). Download a video describing the paper here.