Wilfred Stein

Thinking About Biology (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the emergence of life, the development of the individual, and the study of the interaction between individuals and species. It gives the student of theoretical biology some idea of the flavor of current research in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429961205
• Artikelnr.: 54037454

Autorenporträt

Stein, Wilfred Varela, Francisco J.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Santa Fe Institute
Thinking about Biology: An Introductory Essay
The Emergence of Life
Defining the Transition to Life: Self
Replicating Bounded Structures and Chemical Autopoiesis
The Organism as a Dynamical System
Designing Bacteria
Structural Patterns in Macromolecules
Development as a Robust Natural Process
Development as a Robust Natural Process
Generation of Morphological Patterns: The Mechanical Ways to Create Regular Structures in Embryonic Development
Gastrulation and the Evolution of Development
Biological Organization, Coherence, and Light Emission from Living Organisms
What is the Immune Network For?
Randomness and Pattern Scale in the Immune Network: A Cellular Automata Approach
Species and Societies: Communication Among Multiple Agents
Self
Organized Criticality and Gaia
Requirements for Evolvability in Complex Systems: Orderly Dynamics and Frozen Components
Modeling the Behavior of Ant Colonies as an Emergent Property of a System of Ant
Ant Interactions