@Inproceedings{EPTCS372.10, author = {St Clere Smithe, Toby}, year = {2022}, title = {Polynomial Life: the Structure of Adaptive Systems}, editor = {Kishida, Kohei}, booktitle = {{\rm Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on} Applied Category Theory, {\rm Cambridge, United Kingdom, 12-16th July 2021}}, series = {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science}, volume = {372}, publisher = {Open Publishing Association}, pages = {133-148}, doi = {10.4204/EPTCS.372.10}, }