| 1987 | Precipitation Membranes, Osmotic Growths, and Synthetic Biology. | Milan Zeleny, George J. Klir, Kevin D. Hufford |
| 1987 | The Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Evolution. | Stewart W. Wilson |
| 1987 | Animal Construction Kits. | Michael Travers |
| 1987 | RAM: Artificial Life for the Exploration of Complex Biological Systems. | Charles E. Taylor, David R. Jefferson, Scott R. Turner, Seth R. Goldman |
| 1987 | Cellular Automata, Reaction-Diffusion Systems, and the Origin of Life. | Pablo Tamayo, Hyman Hartman |
| 1987 | Nanotechnology with Feynman Machines: Scanning Tunneling Engineering and Artificial Life. | Conrad Schneiker |
| 1987 | Lego, Logo, and Life. | Mitchel Resnick |
| 1987 | Towards a Quantitative Theory of the Origin of Life. | Steen Rasmussen |
| 1987 | Simulations, Realizations, and Theories of Life. | Howard H. Pattee |
| 1987 | Evolving Bugs in a Simulated Ecosystem. | Norman H. Packard |
| 1987 | The Artificial Menagerie. | Peter Oppenheimer |
| 1987 | Typogenetics: A Logic for Artificial Life. | Harold C. Morris |
| 1987 | Human Culture: A Genetic Takeover Underway. | Hans P. Moravec |
| 1987 | Computational Metabolism: Towards Biological Geometries for Computing. | Marek W. Lugowski |
| 1987 | An Annotated Bibliography of Plant Modeling and Growth Simulation. | Aristid Lindenmayer, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz |
| 1987 | Developmental Models of Multicellular Organisms: A Computer Graphics Perspective. | Aristid Lindenmayer, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz |
| 1987 | Annotated Bibliography of Literature in the Field of Artificial Life. | Chris Langton |
| 1987 | Artificial Life. | Chris Langton |
| 1987 | Artificial Organisms: History, Problems, and Directions. | Richard Laing |
| 1987 | Mirror Beyond Mirror: Puddles of Life. | Paulien Hogeweg |
| 1987 | Molecular Automata in Microtubules: Basic Computational Logic of the Living State? | Stuart R. Hameroff, Steen Rasmussen, Bengt Mnsson |
| 1987 | Movable Finite Automata (MFA): A New Tool for Computer Modeling of Living Systems. | Narendra S. Goel, Richard L. Thompson |
| 1987 | Biological and Nanomechanical Systems: Contrasts in Evolutionary Capacity. | K. Eric Drexler |
| 1987 | The Evolution of Evolvability. | Richard Dawkins |
| 1987 | Modeling Behavior in Petworld. | Bill Coderre |