This title consists of 17 papers on the contributions of John Holland by a group of scholars from a wide range of fields, including the Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow and Herbert Simon, and also Douglas Hofstadter, Brian Arthur, Robert Axelrod, and Melanie Mitchell.

Lashon Booker, Stephanie Forrest, Melanie Mitchell, and Rick Riolo: Introduction: Adaptation, Evolution, and Intelligence PART 1: GENETIC ALGOROTHMS AND BEYOND 1: Kenneth DeJong: Genetic Algorithms: A 30 Year Perspective 2: John R. Koza: Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence by Means of Genetic Algorithms 3: David E. Goldberg: John Holland, Facetwise models, and Economy of Thought PART 2: COMPUTATION, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND BEYOND 4: Arthur W. Burks: An Early Graduate Program in Computers and Communications 5: Oliver G. Selfridge: Had We But World Enough and Time 6: Bernard P. Zeigler: Discrete Event Abstraction: An Emerging Paradigm for Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems 7: Herbert A. Simon: Good Old-Fashioned AI and Genetic Algorithms: An Exercise in Translation Scholarship 8: Douglad R. Hofstadter: Moore's Law, Artificial Evolutionm and the Fate of Humanity PART 3: THE NATURAL WORLD AND BEYOND 9: Julian Adams: Evolution of Complexity in Microbial Populations 10: Bobbi S. Low, Doug Finkbeiner, and Carl Simon: Favored Places in the Selfish Herd: Trading Off Food and Security 11: Rick Riolo, Robert Axelrod, and Michael D. Cohen: Tags, Interaction Patterns and the Evolution of Cooperation 12: Robert G. Reynolds and Salah Saleem: The Impact of Environmental Dynamics on Cultural Emergence 13: Kenneth J. Arrow: John Holland and the Evolution of Economics 14: W. Brian Arthur: Cognition: The Black Box of Economics Index