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 How cancer arises: genetics releases, plasticity creates, genetics stabilizes presents a novel theory for the processes that create tumors.
New preprint The Price equation reveals a universal force-metric-bias law of algorithmic learning and natural selection shows the deep mathematical unity across evolution, machine learning, and common principles of physics.
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 on cancer (left) and robustness (right)
and video recordings of my graduate class Puzzles in Modern Biology
Read my essay about the development of social evolution theory in the 1990s
