Evolution on Purpose: Teleonomy in Living Systems

Peter A. Corning is Director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems and Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University. He has been a science writer for Newsweek and has also authored seven books and more than 200 professional and print media articles.

Stuart A. Kauffman is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He has published over 350 articles and six books: The Origins of Order, At Home in the Universe, Investigations, Reinventing the Sacred, Humanity in a Creative Universe, and A World beyond Physics.


Denis Noble was Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford until 2004, when he retired and switched his focus to evolutionary biology. He is author of The Music of Life and Dance to the Tune of Life. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

James A. Shapiro is Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. He has published pioneering books on mobile genetic elements, natural genetic engineering, bacterial multicellularity, and read-write genome evolution.

Richard I. Vane-Wright is an entomologist associated with the Natural History Museum (London) for over 60 years. He now divides his time between studies on the history of entomology, butterfly systematics, the theory of evolution, and attitudes to nature and the conservation of biodiversity.

Addy Pross is Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus) at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests lie in the physics/chemistry-biology relationship and the origin of life problem. His pioneering book What Is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology has been published in close to a dozen languages.

彼得·A·科寧（Peter A. Corning）是斯坦福大學複雜系統研究所的所長及人類生物學教授。他曾擔任《新聞週刊》（Newsweek）的科學撰稿人，並著有七本書籍及超過200篇專業和印刷媒體文章。

斯圖亞特·A·考夫曼（Stuart A. Kauffman）是一位美國理論生物學家及複雜系統研究者，專注於地球生命的起源。他已發表超過350篇文章及六本書籍，包括《秩序的起源》（The Origins of Order）、《宇宙中的家》（At Home in the Universe）、《調查》（Investigations）、《重塑神聖》（Reinventing the Sacred）、《創造性宇宙中的人類》（Humanity in a Creative Universe）以及《超越物理的世界》（A World beyond Physics）。

丹尼斯·諾布爾（Denis Noble）曾任牛津大學心血管生理學教授，直到2004年退休後轉向進化生物學。他是《生命的音樂》（The Music of Life）和《隨生命的旋律舞蹈》（Dance to the Tune of Life）的作者，並且是皇家學會的院士。

詹姆斯·A·夏皮羅（James A. Shapiro）是芝加哥大學生物化學與分子生物學系的微生物學教授。他在移動遺傳元素、自然遺傳工程、細菌多細胞性及可讀寫基因組演化等領域發表了開創性的書籍。

理查德·I·維恩-賴特（Richard I. Vane-Wright）是一位與倫敦自然歷史博物館合作超過60年的昆蟲學家。他目前的研究時間分配在昆蟲學歷史、蝴蝶系統學、進化理論以及對自然和生物多樣性保護的態度上。

艾迪·普羅斯（Addy Pross）是內蓋夫本古里安大學的化學（名譽）教授。他的研究興趣在於物理/化學與生物學的關係及生命起源問題。他的開創性著作《什麼是生命？化學如何變成生物學》（What Is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology）已出版近十種語言。