An introduction to creative evolutionary systems / Peter J. Bentley and David W. Corne -- pt. 1. Evolutionary creativity. Creativity in evolution: individuals, interactions, and environments / Tim Taylor -- Recognizability of the idea: the evolutionary process of Argenia / Celestino Soddu -- Breeding aesthetic objects: art and artificial evolution / Mitchell Whitelaw -- The beer can theory of creativity / Liane Gabora -- pt. 2. Evolutionary music. GenJam : evolution of a jazz improviser / John A. Biles -- On the origins and evolution of music in virtual worlds / Eduardo Reck Miranda -- Vox populi: evolutionary computation for music evolution / Artemis Moroni [and others] -- The sound gallery--an interactive A-life artwork / Sam Woolf and Adrian Thompson -- pt. 3. Creative evolutionary design. Creative design and the generative evolutionary paradigm / John Frazer -- Genetic programming: biologically inspired computation that exhibits creativity in producing human-competitive results / John R. Koza [and others] -- Toward a symbiotic coevolutionary approach to architecture / Helen Jackson -- Using evolutionary algorithms to aid designers of architectural structures / Peter von Buelow -- pt. 4. Evolutionary art. Eons of genetically evolved algorithmic images / Steven Rooke -- Art, robots, and evolution as a tool for creativity / Luigi Pagliarini and Henrik Hautop Lund -- Stepping stones in the mist / Paul Brown -- Evolutionary generation of faces / Peter J.B. Hancock and Charlie D. Frowd -- The Escher evolover: evolution to the people / A.E. Eiben, R. Nabuurs, and I. Booij -- pt. 5. Evolutionary innovation. The genetic algorithm as a discovery engine: strange circuits and new principles / Julian F. Miller [and others] -- Discovering novel fighter combat maneuvers: simulating test pilot creativity / Julian F. Miller [and others] -- Innovative antenna design using genetic algorithms / Derek S. Linden -- Evolutionary techniques in physical robotics / Jordan B. Pollock [and others] -- Patenting evolved bactericidal peptides / Shail Patel [and others].