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The Origin of Life - Toward a Theoretical Biology (Hardcover)
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The Origin of Life - Toward a Theoretical Biology (Hardcover)
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Theoretical biology is still in its early stages as an academic
discipline. There is even little agreement as to what topics it
should deal with or in what manner it should precede; and it is
only recently that philosophers felt called upon to notice the
relevance of biological topics as evolution or perception to their
traditional problems. This work is a publication of the
International Union of Biological Sciences, the central
organization of all the branches of biology. The main focus here is
to explore the possibility of formulating some frame of concepts
and methods around which theoretical biology can grow. The
intention of this collective effort was that discussions would be
concerned, not with the theory of particular biological processes,
such as membrane permeability, genetics, and neural activity, but
rather with an attempt to discover and formulate general concepts
and logical relations characteristic of living as contrasted with
inorganic systems. Further, this project is a consideration of
implications these might have for general philosophy. Many
well-known scientists contributed to this volume, such as J.
Maynard Smith, Ernst Mayr, Brian Goodwin, and Renu Thom. The Origin
of Life: Toward a Theoretical Biology explores the character of the
problems facing any theory of general biology. It contains a series
of chapters and exchanges discussing such topics as the origin of
life, cellular differentiation, morphogensis, evolution, and
indeterminacy in biological and physical systems, the organization
of the brain, the statistical mechanics of non-linear oscillators,
and many other topics. This is a pioneering volume by recognized
leaders in an emerging field the first of four such works.
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