Theoretical biology : epigenetic and evolutionary order from complex systems
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Theoretical biology : epigenetic and evolutionary order from complex systems
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
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Originally published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1989
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
How does complexity of development, structure, and function of organisms emerge from the relative simplicity of biochemistry and genetics? Goodwin and Saunders provide a broad-based yet coherent inquiry into biological processes, seeking to establish the generative principles that apply throughout the field of biology to give a unifying logical structure to diverse empirical phenomena.
Table of Contents
- An inventory of Waddington concepts
- a new concept of stability
- bifurcations and the epigenetic landscape
- pattern formation and pattern selection in reaction-diffusion systems
- are there rules governing patterns of gene regulation?
- origins of order in evolution - self-organziation and selection
- evolution and the generative order
- the physics of complex organization
- adaptive strategies gleaned from immune networks - viability theory and comparison with classified systems
- the adaptation of complex systems
- communication and organization in developing systems
- a field viewpoint of positional information
- membrane phase transitions
- coherent excitations and the physical foundations of life
- discrete aspect of morphogenesis and gene dynamics
- time and space scales in neurophysiology
- formal languages and theoretical molecular biology
- towards a grammatical paradigm for the study of the regulation of gene expression.
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