Organization Stability & Process: Toward a Theoretical Biology

ISBN-13: 9781138529397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 262 str.

C. H. Waddington

Opis

This is the third, penultimate volume in the Toward a Theoretical Biology series. The contributors agree that there is a major problem in finding methods of dealing with the great complexity of biological systems.

Spis treści

Biological stability; Behaviour of randomly constructed genetic nets: binary element nets; Behaviour of randomly constructed genetio nets s continuous element nets; The synthetic problem and the genotype- phenotype relation in cellular metabolism; Evolution off genetic conformation; An epigenetic system; On the irrelevance off genes; Complex systems; Topological models in biology; The problem of biological hierarchy; The role off individuality in biological theory; Remarks on statistical mechanics and theoretical biology; Queries and comments on theoretical biology; Concepts and theories of growth, development, differentiation and morphogenesis; Positional information and pattern formation; A phase-shift model for the spatial and temporal organisation of developing systems This abstract is reprinted from J. Theoret. Biol. 25 (1969) 49–107 .; The seat off the soul; List off Participants

O autorze

C. H. Waddington