Two interesting texts by A.E. Eiben and J.E. Smith:
Towards the Evolution of Things: https://www.cs.vu.nl/~gusz/papers/2016-SIGEVOlution-Newsletter-Evolution-of-Things.pdf
From evolutionary computation to the evolution of things:
https://www.cs.vu.nl/~gusz/papers/2015-From%20evolutionary%20computation%20to%20the%20evolution%20of%20things.pdf
Related categorisation from Bert Chan:
