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9780763706487

Patterns : Sixteen Things You Should Know about Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780763706487

  • ISBN10:

    0763706485

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-04-01
  • Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub

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Table of Contents

CONCEPTS
Introduction viii
A Singular Theme viii
Thinking Small x
From Atoms to Cells---Comparative Sizes xii
Parts and Wholes xvi
The Way Life Works---The Basic Idea xvii
Picturing the Invisible xvii
Sixteen Things You Should Know About Life 1(61)
Life Builds From The Bottom Up
2(2)
Life Assembles Itself Into Chains
4(2)
Life Needs An Inside and An Outside
6(2)
Life Uses a Few Themes to Generate Many Variations
8(2)
Life Organizes with Information
10(2)
Life Encourages Variety by Reshuffling Information
12(2)
Life Creates with Mistakes
14(2)
Life Occurs in Water
16(2)
Life Runs on Sugar
18(2)
Life Works in Cycles
20(2)
Life Recycles Everything it Uses
22(2)
Life Maintains Itself by Turnover
24(2)
Life Tends to Optimize Rather than Maximize
26(2)
Life is Opportunistic
28(2)
Life Competes Within a Cooperative Framework
30(2)
Life is Interconnected and Interdependent
32(7)
CONNECTIONS
A Singular Theme
34(1)
From Atoms to Cells---Comparative Sizes
35(3)
Picturing the Invisible
38(1)
Life Builds From The Bottom Up
39(2)
Life Assembles Itself Into Chains
41(1)
Life Needs An Inside and An Outside
42(3)
Life Uses a Few Themes to Generate Many Variations
45(3)
Life Organizes with Information
48(2)
Life Encourages Variety by Reshuffling Information
50(1)
Life Creates with Mistakes
51(2)
Life Occurs in Water
53(1)
Life Runs on Sugar
54(2)
Life Works in Cycles
56(1)
Life Recycles Everything it Uses
57(1)
Life Maintains Itself by Turnover
58(1)
Life Tends to Optimize Rather than Maximize
59(1)
Life is Opportunistic
60(1)
Life Competes Within a Cooperative Framework
61(1)
Life is Interconnected and Interdependent
62

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