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Routledge
262 Pages
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Routledge
262 Pages
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Routledge
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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. Molecular biology has given us considerable insight into the nature of the elementary units and processes of life, but to understand how these are put together to form systems that are... Read more
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
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C. H. Waddington
