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Organization Stability & Process - Toward a Theoretical Biology (Paperback)
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Organization Stability & Process - Toward a Theoretical Biology (Paperback)
Series: Toward a Theoretical Biology
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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 usually too complicated to be analysed completely, but
exhibit global properties of simplicity, presents biologists with
an intellectual challenge that physical sciences and chemistry must
also face. The problem is approached from several different angles:
quantum physics, topology, and statistical mechanics. A stimulating
discussion is recorded: that the behaviour of randomly constructed
networks exhibits simplicity. Thoughtful analyses of complexities
in such basic biological processes as the genetic control of
differentiation, evolution, and ecology is also included. Some of
the questions dealt with are: What kinds of theories should we wish
to have in connection with developmental biology? And have we got
them? The subject matter of 'Organization Stability and Process' is
defined as the basic concept of biology. None of the contributors
herein contained is a molecular biologist in the modern sense, but
molecular biology casts a shadow over this work, at least in so far
as they challenge its interpretative aggressiveness and its
enthusiastic but unendearing self-confidence and self-sufficiency.
This volume inaugurates a new and authentic style of scientific
literature. The contributions are thoughtful, imaginative,
illuminating, and exceptionally well written.
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