What was the first organism like and what did it do?
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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Egbert M, Pérez-Mercader J. Methods for Measuring Viability and Evaluating Viability-Indicators. (submitted).
Agmon E, Egbert M, Virgo N. The Biological Foundations of Enactivism: A report on a workshop held at Artificial Life XV. (To appear in Artificial Life Special Issue).
Egbert M, Pérez-Mercader J. Adapting to Adaptations: Behavioural Strategies that are Robust to Mutations and Other Organisational-Transformations. Scientific Reports. 2016;6 (Article number: 18963).
Egbert M, Barandiaran X. Modelling habits as self-sustaining patterns of sensorimotor behavior. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2014;8(590).
Barandiaran X, Egbert M. Norm-establishing and norm-following in autonomous agency. Artificial Life. 2013;20(1):5-28.
Egbert M. Bacterial Chemotaxis: Introverted or Extroverted? A Comparison of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Basic Forms of Metabolism-Based and Metabolism-Independent Behavior Using a Computational Model. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(5):e63617.
Ibrahim B, Henze R, Gruenert G, Egbert M, Huwald J, Dittrich P. Spatial rule-based modeling: a method and its application to the human mitotic kinetochore. Cells. 2013;2(3): 506-544..
Egbert M. For Biological Systems, Maintaining Essential Variables Within Viability Limits is Not Passive -- Open peer commentary on the target article "Homeostats for the 21st Century? Simulating Ashby Simulating the Brain" by Stefano Franchi. Constructivist Foundations. 2013;9(1):109-111.
Egbert M, Barandiaran X, Di Paolo E. Behavioral Metabolution: The Adaptive and Evolutionary Potential of Metabolism-Based Chemotaxis. Artificial Life. 2012;18(1):1-25.
Egbert M, Barandiaran X, Di Paolo E. A Minimal Model of Metabolism-Based Chemotaxis. PLoS Computational Biology. 2010;6(12):e1001004.
Egbert M, Di Paolo E. Integrating Autopoiesis and Behavior: An Exploration in Computational Chemo-ethology. Adaptive Behavior. 2009;17(5):387-401.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Egbert M, Keane A, Postlethwaite C. Lag in Situated, Embodied and Dynamical Adaptive Systems. In: Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL.; 2017.
Egbert M, Pérez-Mercader J. Quantifying Viability. In Artificial Life 15: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems.; 2016.
Egbert M, Canamero L. Habit-based Regulation of Essential Variables. In: Artificial Life 14: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems.; 2014.
Egbert M, Gruenert G, Escuela G, Dittrich P. Synthetic signalling protocell networks as models of neural computation. In: Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL.; 2013.
Egbert M, Barandiaran X. Quantifying Normative Behaviour and Precariousness in Adaptive Agency. In: Lenaerts T, Giacobini M, Bersini H, Bourgine P, Dorigo M, Doursat R, editors. Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press; 2011.
Egbert M, Barandiaran X, Di Paolo E. Behavioral Metabolution: Metabolism based behavior enables new forms of adaptation and evolution. In: Fellermann H, Dorr M, Hanczyc M, Laursen LL, Maurer S, Merkle D et al., editors. Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems.; 2010.
Egbert M, Di Paolo E, Barandiaran X. Chemo-ethology of an Adaptive Protocell: Sensorless sensitivity to implicit viability conditions. Springer, Berlin.; 2009.
Virgo N, Egbert M, Froese T. The Role of the Spatial Boundary in Autopoiesis. In: in Proceedings of the Tenth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL09. Budapest: Springer Verlag; 2009.
Egbert M, Di Paolo E. Mechanisms of adaptation to periodic environmental change. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics. Lund University Cognitive Studies; 2008.