Steven A. Frank's Home Page

I am Donald Bren Professor and UCI Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. These pages provide information about my research interests and publications. My books and articles can be downloaded in PDF format.


New article Robustness and Complexity links universal principles of engineering with unexpected consequences for genomic complexity, constructive neutral evolution, the duality of sloppy components and precise system performance, and the recurring hourglass structure shared by biological development and complex human-designed systems. Many aspects follow from the paradox of robustness, captured by Herbert Spencer's famous quote: The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.



Microbial Life History

Click cover for information, download preprint of entire book



Click images for information and downloading of my books and series


My YouTube channel has several video lectures, including these recent talks

    

and video recordings of my graduate class Puzzles in Modern Biology


Read my essay about the development of social evolution theory in the 1990s


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