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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Santa Fe Institute ; v. Vol. 3 |
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Santa Fe Institute
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Santa Fe Institute; Contributors to This Volume; Table of Contents; Thinking About Biology: An Introductory Essay; Section I: 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; Section II: Development and the Individual: Processes of Identity; Development as a Robust Natural Process |
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Generation of Morphological Patterns: Mechanical Ways to Create Regular Structures in Embryonic DevelopmentGastrulation 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; Section III: Species and Societies: Communication Among Multiple Agents; Self-Organized Criticality and Gaia; Requirements for Evolvability in Complex Systems: Orderly Dynamics and Frozen Components |
| Summary |
No science has ever been done without an indissoluble link between theory and fact: facts are coloured by the theoretical spectacles on puts on, just as much as theory is shaped by the results of empirical observation. Theoretical biology is a broad and rapidly growing field where this link is actually explored with passion and discipline. The chapters of this book have been chosen to give the student of theoretical biology the flavor of current exciting research in the field. The eleven chapters are divided into three broad sections: the emergence of life, the development of the individual, and the study of the interaction between individuals and species |
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Modeling the Behavior of Ant Colonies as an Emergent Property of a System of Ant-Ant InteractionsIndex |
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Print version record |
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Biology.
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Nature -- Reference
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Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology
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Science -- Life Sciences -- General
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Theoretische Biologie
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Biology
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biology.
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Biology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stein, Wilfred
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Stein, Wilfred D
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| ISBN |
9780429972287 |
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0429972288 |
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