To: Jeffrey EpsteinBeevacation©gmail.com]
From: Charles L. Harper Jr.
Sent: Fri 11/12/2010 1:57:43 AM
Subject: Very interesting research area on the evolution of deception
Dear Jeffrey,
Quick note:
I have done a bit more research on one area you mentioned to me last week.
Darwin himself wrote a book on deception in orchids:
"On the various contrivances by which orchids are fertilized by insects."
(1885)
I have discovered that there is a rich and broad-ranging contemporary research
literature in this topical area.
(I've found hundreds of papers as well as overview books, gene databases, etc.)
Apparently, the rate of speciation-evolution in orchids having to do with food
and sexual deception,
and with plant-pollinator pairing and co-evolution is very rapid. It seems to
be a rapidly expanding research field
that is seriously connected into evolutionary theory and plant genetics.
The topic is not (yet) connected in any way to issues in
cryptography. However, I note extensive work
on gene complexes called "MADS-box" genes in orchids. This kind of work
relates to one of the significant
research frontiers I mentioned: systems biology and evolution towards
understanding the dynamics of variation:
how does a plant specoes "learn" to re-create insect sex phermones as well as
insect shapes?
(Probably you will know Marc Kirschner at Harvard,
who is a key pioneer in systems biology and research on the "evolution of
evolution" dynamics of variation).
I have identified some serious plant geneticists working in this arena.
I think there may be potential to connect with innovation agendas in
cryptography pursuing "nature inspired" approaches.
For example, the work of the cryptologist John A. Clark (See: http://www-
users.cs.york.ac.uk/-jac/CV.pdf)
Paper: "Nature-Inspired Cryptography: Past, Present and
Future." (2003) and
Paper: "Fusing Natural Computational Paradigms for Cryptography:
Or, How to Create Quantum Solvable Cryptographic
Problems with
Heuristic Search." (2006)
This note relays a quick pass only into the literature to report that
there seems to be a lot there that looks seriously interesting.
Allbest,
Charles Harper
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