Papers on information & evolution

Pim van Meurs, frequent contributor to the Panda's Thumb, recently wrote about the incessant lies on the part of ID-creationists regarding (among other things) evolution and information, and he referenced some papers that I have compiled from a few posts that I've written on the topic:

1. Natural selection as the process of accumulating genetic information in adaptive evolution, M. Kimura, Genetic Research Cambridge, 2 (1961) 127-140
2. Rate of Information Acquisition by a Species subjected to Natural Selection, D.J.C. MacKay, open-source @ http://arxiv.org/ (1999)
3. Evolution of biological information, T.D. Schneider, Nucleic Acids Research, (2000), 2794-2799
4. The fitness value of information, C.T. Bergstrom and M. Lachmann, open-source @ http://arxiv.org/ (2006)
5. Review of W. Dembski’s No Free Lunch, J. Shallit, BioSystems, 66 (2002) 93-99
6. The Evolution and Understanding of Hierarchical Complexity in Biology from an Algebraic Perspective, C.L. Nehaniv and J.L. Rhodes, Artificial Life, 6 (2000) 45–67
7. On the Increase in Complexity in Evolution I, P.T. Saunders and M.W. Ho, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 63 (1976) 375-384
8. On the Increase in Complexity in Evolution II: The Relativity of Complexity and the Principle of Minimum Increase, P.T. Saunders and M.W. Ho, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 90 (1981) 515-530

In addition to these papers, I wanted to highlight six other recent reviews that give a great overview of the present scientific thinking towards the origin of the genetic code:

1. "Selection, history and chemistry: the three faces of the genetic code.", Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Volume 24, Issue 6, 1 June 1999, Pages 241-247 (full-text .pdf)
2. "Genetic code: Lucky chance or fundamental law of nature?", Physics of Life Reviews, Volume 1, Issue 3, Dec 2004, Pages 202-229 (full-text .pdf) [low-quality pub, but expansive overview of the subject]
3. "Stepwise Evolution of Nonliving to Living Chemical Systems.", Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, Volume 34, Issue 4, Aug 2004, Pages 371–389 (full-text .pdf)
4. "The Origin of Cellular Life.", Bioessays, Volume 22, Issue 12, Dec 2004, Pages 1160-1170 (full-text .pdf)
5. "The Origin of the Genetic Code: Theories and Their Relationships, A Review.", Biosystems, Volume 80, Issue 2, May 2005, Pages 175-184 (full-text .pdf)
6. "The Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code: Statistical and Experimental Investigations.", Robin D. Knight, Ph.D. Dissertation, June 2001.

And three more about evolution and complexity:

1. Understanding the recent evolution of the human genome: insights from human-chimpanzee genome comparisons, Human Mutation, 28(2):99-130, Oct 2006, Download PDF (also see: this article)
2. The origin of new genes: Glimpses from the young and old, Nature Reviews Genetics, 4(11): 865-875 Nov 2003, Download PDF
3. Evolution of biological complexity, PNAS, 97(9):4463-4468, April 2000, Download PDF

See a few of my posts for context with these papers:

1. http://nonserviamergofiatlux.blogspot.com/2007/05/cameron-and-comfort-hit-new-low-with.html
2. http://nonserviamergofiatlux.blogspot.com/2007/05/something-ive-been-slow-to-realize-re.html
3. http://nonserviamergofiatlux.blogspot.com/2007/03/broken-record-that-is-creationism.html
4. http://nonserviamergofiatlux.blogspot.com/2007/03/on-origin-of-genetic-code-and.html
5. http://nonserviamergofiatlux.blogspot.com/2007/02/destroying-yet-another-creationist-myth.html