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9780465019274

Signs of Life : How Complexity Pervades Biology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465019274

  • ISBN10:

    0465019277

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Summary

Signs of Lifeis an entirely new approach to the problems of understanding living systems. It applies the mathematics of order and disorder, of entropy, chance, and randomness, of chaos and nonlinear dynamics to the various mysteries of the living world at all levels. Less a set of answers than a guide to thinking about living systems, this book will help set the agenda for biology in the coming century.

Author Biography

Brian Goodwin is a Scholar in Residence at Schumacher College and a member of the Santa Fe Institute.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Nonlinearity, Chaos, and Emergence
1(28)
Order, Complexity, Disorder
29(32)
Genetic Networks, Cell Differentiation, and Development
61(28)
Physiology on the Edge of Chaos
89(30)
Brain Dynamics
119(28)
Ants, Brains, and Chaos
147(32)
The Baroque of Nature
179(32)
Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
211(32)
Evolution and Extinction
243(34)
Fractal Cities and Market Crashes
277(28)
Notes 305(12)
Index 317

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