Biological Process in Living Systems: Toward a Theoretical Biology

ISBN-13: 9781138519572 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 312 str.

C. H. Waddington

Opis

Biological Processes in Living Systems is the fourth and final volume of the Toward a Theoretical Biology series. It contains essays that deal in detail with particular biological processes: morphogenesis of pattern, the development of neuronal networks, evolutionary processes, and others. The main thrust of this volume brings relevance to the general underlying nature of living systems and adds new depth to the field by stressing the structure of language as a paradigm for a theory of general biology.

Spis treści

1: The Rfemann-Hugoniot catastrophe and van der Waals equation; 2: Differential equations for the heartbeat and nerve impulse; 3: Structuralism and biology; 4: The concept of positional information and pattern formation; 5: Pattern formation in fibroblast cultures, an Inherently precise morphogenetic process; 6: Form and information; 7: Organizational principles for theoretical neurophysiology; 8: Stochastic models off neu isoelectric activity; 9: Statistical and hierarchical aspects off biological organization; 10: The importance of molecular hierarchy In Information processing; 11: What can we know about a metazoan’s entire control system?: on Elsasser’s, and other epIstemologica1 problems in cell science; 12: Laws and constraints, symbols and languages; 13: Biology and meaning; 14: Appendix. A catastrophe machine; 15: Epilogue

O autorze

C. H. Waddington