Thinking about biology : an invitation to current theoretical biology /: an invitation to current theoretical biology. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Wilfred D. Stein, Francisco J. Varela.
• Other Names: Stein, Wilfred D; Varela, Francisco J, 1946-2001
• Contents: Thinking about biology : an introductory essay / Wilfred D. Stein and Francisco J. Varela -- The emergence of life. Defining the transition to life : self-replicating bounded structures and chemical autopoiesis / Pier Luigi Luisi -- The organism as a dynamical system / Peter T. Saunders -- Designing bacteria / Jay E. Mittenthal, Bertrand Clarke, and Mark Levinthal -- Structural patterns in macromolecules / G. Cocho [and others] -- Development and the individual : processes of identity. Development as a robust natural process / Brian Goodwin -- Generation of morphological patterns : the mechanical ways to create regular structures in embroyonic development / L.V. Beloussov -- Gastrulation and the evolution of development / Lewis Wolpert -- Biological organization, coherence, and light emission from living organisms / Mae-Wan Ho and Fritz-Albert Popp -- What is the immune network for? / Francisco J. Varela, Antonio Coutinho, and John Stewart -- Randomness and pattern scale in the immune network : a cellular automata approach / Rob J. de Boer, Jan D. van der Laan, and Pauline Hogeweg. (Cont.) Species and societies : communication among multiple agents. Self-organized criticality and Gaia / Per Bak -- Requirements for evolvability in complex systems : orderly dynamics and frozen components / Stuart A. Kauffman -- Modeling the behavior of ant colonies as an emergent property of a system of ant-ant interactions / L.E.H. Trainor.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 1993
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 574.01; Biology; Biology; Aufsatzsammlung; Theoretische Biologie
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429972287; 0429972288
• Related ISBNs: 9780201624540; 0201624540
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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