Signs of life
How Complexity Pervades Biology
Résumé
In every major field of biology, from molecular genetics
and neurobiology,through animal behavior and ecology, to
evoltion, extinction, and economics, there are well-known
phenomena that today's standart theories are powerless to
explain :
Why don't cells in identical environments with identical
genomes live identical lives ?
How do such simple creatures as ants and termites manage
such complex behavior as building nests ?
Why did all the animals kingdom's basic body plans appear
in a single geological era, and no new ones since ?
Yet, as Ricard Solé and Brian Goodwin show, various tools of complexity theory can offer us new ways to understand these phenomena.A tour of biology such as you've never seen befor,Signs of Life is about explaining the unexplanable,by using new ideas to answer questions yesterday's ideas can't help with us.
Contens
Preface
Nonlinearity, Chaos, and Emergence
Order, Complexity, Disorder
Genetic Networks, Cell Differentiation and
Development
Physiology on the Edge of Chaos
Brain Dynamics
Ants, Brains, and Chaos
The Baroque of Nature
Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
Evolution and Extinction
Fractal Cities and Market Crashes
Notes
Index
L'auteur - Ricard Solé
Ricard V. Solé is Professor of Research at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies in Spain, head of the Complex Systems Lab at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and Senior Member of the NASA-Associate Center of Astrobiology. His recent books include Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Perseus Publishing |
| Auteur(s) | Brian Goodwin, Ricard Solé |
| Parution | 30/01/2002 |
| Nb. de pages | 322 |
| Format | 15,4 x 23,4 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 477g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780465019281 |
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