<P>Acknowledgements</P><P>Introduction</P><B><P>Part I: An Analogy Between Socio-Economic and Biological Mechanisms of Change </P></B><P>1 Economic Mechanisms of Change and Biological Evolution </P><P>2. Mechanisms of Change in Socio-Political Systems and Biological Evolution </P><B><P>Part II: Evolutionary Mechanisms of Change: Normal Case </P></B><P>3. The Mechanisms of Biological Change -- General Characteristics </P><P>4. Two Classes of Evolutionary Mechanisms of Change </P><P>5. Internal Mechanisms of Change </P><P>6. Special Features of the Somatic Mechanism of Change </P><P>7. Some Features of the Germatic Mechanism of Change </P><B><P>Part III: Evolutionary Mechanisms of Change: Pathology </P></B><P>8. First Steps En Route to a New Concept of Cancer</P><P>9. Characteristics of Cancer</P><P>Conclusion </P><P>References</P><P>Index </P>