The Special Issue reflects a growing interest in Darwinian ideas and their increasing application to work and organizational issues, analyzes factors that have impeded its adoption as a paradigm and considers the prospects for future growth. After a brief introduction to key concepts in the new Darwinism, some histories, and controversies are traced. Causes for the particularly slow uptake of t...

The world of color image difference modeling can be considered relatively young, when compared with the rich history of general color difference equations. While young, this area of research is well beyond the primordial soup stage. In this paper we present a framework for describing the evolution of color image difference models. This framework builds upon the S-CIELAB model, which in turn was...

The realisation of artificial Darwinian evolution is one conceivable—indeed, more or less obvious— route toward the realisation of a growth of knowledge (or “complexity”) in artificial systems. This paper explores the current state of the art in achieving Artificial Darwinism, and the prospects for further progress. In particular, I reassess the seminal work of von Neumann on evolution in cellu...