1st Edition
Hormones as Tokens of Selection Qualitative Dynamics of Homeostasis and Regulation in Organismal Biology
Chapter 1 □ Introduction
Chapter 2 □ The nature of homeostasis
Chapter 3 □ Gradient-driven regulatory dynamics
Chapter 4 □ Coupling and pleiotropy
Chapter 5 □ Differential inclusions
Chapter 6 □ Application to mammalian nutrient budgets
Chapter 7 □ The evolutionary perspective
Chapter 8 □ Critique and outlook
Biography
Hugo van den Berg is a mathematical biologist whose research includes work on the neuroendocrine control of hydromineral physiology in molluscs, nutrient and light limitation in microbial ecosystems, zinc homeostasis, genic selectionism, the foundations of biomathematics, the self/nonself problem in adaptive immunology, energy metabolism, diabetes, oncoprotein kinetics, bacterial cell division, transcriptomics-based prediction of electrodynamics in excitable tissues, and in silico reconstruction of smooth muscle tissue architecture.
