Thomas S. Ray | Academic Influence

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Thomas S. Ray

Biology

#888

World Rank

#1559

Historical Rank

#475

USA Rank

Evolutionary Biology

#137

World Rank

#153

Historical Rank

#58

USA Rank

Ecology

#377

World Rank

#418

Historical Rank

#147

USA Rank

Zoology

#176

World Rank

#469

Historical Rank

#63

USA Rank

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Thomas S. Ray's Degrees

PhD Zoology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Zoology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Biology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas S. Ray is an evolutionary biologist known for his research in tropical biology, digital evolution, and the human mind. Early life and education Ray earned his undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry at Florida State University. He then proceeded to Harvard University, where he received his master's and Doctorate in Biology, specializing in plant behavior.

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Thomas S. Ray's Published Works

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Published Works

An Approach to the Synthesis of Life (1991) (776)
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (2006) (498)
An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life (1993) (206)
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities (2018) (191)
Psychedelics and the Human Receptorome (2010) (189)
Evolution, complexity, entropy and artificial reality (1994) (114)
Host Tree Location Behavior of a Tropical Vine (Monstera gigantea) by Skototropism (1975) (108)
Automated evolutionary design, robustness, and adaptation of sidewinding locomotion of a simulated snake-like robot (2005) (101)
Is It Alive or Is It GA? (1991) (70)
Evolution , Ecology and Optimization of Digital Organisms (1992) (68)
Foraging behaviour in tropical herbaceous climbers (Araceae) (1992) (61)
LANDMARK EIGENSHAPE ANALYSIS: HOMOLOGOUS CONTOURS: LEAF SHAPE IN SYNGONIUM (ARACEAE) (1992) (53)
Evolution of differentiated multi-threaded digital organisms (1998) (48)
Evolving Muti-Cellular Artificial Life (1994) (39)
DIVERSITY OF SHOOT ORGANIZATION IN THE ARACEAE (1987) (37)
Antbutterflies: butterflies that follow army ants to feed on antbird droppings. (1980) (36)
A Proposal to Create a Network-Wide Biodiversity Reserve For Digital Organisms (1995) (34)
SURVEY OF SHOOT ORGANIZATION IN THE ARACEAE (1988) (34)
LEAF TYPES IN THE ARACEAE (1987) (30)
Metamorphosis in the Araceae. (1990) (27)
Evolving Parallel Computation (1997) (24)
Correction: Psychedelics and the Human Receptorome (2010) (22)
Metastability and nucleation in Ising models with Swendsen-Wang dynamics (1990) (22)
Evolution and complexity (1999) (21)
GROWTH CORRELATIONS WITHIN THE SEGMENT IN THE ARACEAE (1986) (18)
Evolving complexity (2006) (17)
Selecting naturally for differentiation: Preliminary evolutionary results (1998) (17)
Nucleation near the spinodal in long-range Ising models (1990) (14)
Evolving Multicellular Artificial Life (1994) (14)
Measures of evolvability in Tierra (2001) (12)
Crossover and the breakdown of hyperscaling in long-range bond percolation (1988) (12)
Maintenance of Species Diversity by Predation in the Tierra System (2010) (12)
Evidence for spinodal singularities in high-dimensional nearest-neighbor ising models (1991) (10)
Evolution of side-winding locomotion of simulated limbless, wheelless robots (2005) (6)
Constructing the ecstasy of MDMA from its component mental organs: Proposing the primer/probe method. (2016) (6)
Properties of metastable ising models evolving under the Swendsen-Wang dynamics (1990) (6)
Mental Organs and the Origins of Mind (2013) (6)
Evolution, Robustness, and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-Like Robot (2004) (5)
Comparative Studies on the Morphology of the Araceae. Part II. On Leaf Placement and Shoot Organization of Araceae (1990) (4)
Evolving autonomous software agents (1994) (4)
Future minds, mental organs and ways of knowing (2012) (4)
An Evolutionary Approach to Program Transformation and Synthesis (1995) (3)
Conditions to Facilitate the Evolvability of Digital Proteins (2000) (3)
Exploring the Analogy in the Emergent Properties of Locomotion Gaits of Snakebot Adapted to Challenging Terrain and Partial Damage (2006) (2)
Evolving a Team of Asymmetric Predator Agents That Do Not Compute in Predator-Prey Pursuit Problem (2018) (2)
On the Analogy in the Emergent Properties of Evolved Locomotion Gaits of Simulated Snakebot (2006) (1)
Evolution, Robustness and Generality of a Team of Simple Agents with Asymmetric Morphology in Predator-Prey Pursuit Problem (2019) (1)
Mental Organs and the Breadth & Depth of Consciousness (2018) (1)
What Role Do Magnetic Fields Play in Jets from Young Stars (2004) (1)
A Computational Approach To Evolutionary Biology (1997) (1)
The Collimation and Propagation of Jets from Young Stars (1994) (0)
Evolution of new tissues through gene duplication and divergence in multithreaded digital organisms (2001) (0)
Thoughts on the Synthesis of LifeThomas S (1990) (0)
Evolutionary design, robustness and of sidewinding locomotion of simulated libmless wheelless robot [libmless read limbless] (2004) (0)
Negative charges in the Hed1 T40 region promote Hed1 function in the absence of DMC1. (2016) (0)
Software Evolution (1996) (0)

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