in Every Major Field Of Biology, From Molecular Genetics And Neurobiology, Through Animal Behavior And Ecology, To Evolution, Extinction, And Economics, There Are Well-known Phenomena That Today's Standard Theories Are Powerless To Explain: Why Don't Cells In Identical Environments With Identical Genomes Live Identical Lives? How Do Such Simple Creatures As Ants And Termites Manage Such Complex Behavior As Building Nests? Why Did All The Animal Kingdom's Basic Body Plans Appear In A Single Geological Era, And No New Ones Since? Yet, As Ricard Sole And Brian Goodwin Show, Various Tools Of Complexity Theory Can Offer Us New Ways To Understand These Phenomena. A Tour Of Biology Such As You've Never Seen Before, Signs Of Life Is About Explaining The Unexplainable -- By Using New Ideas To Answer Questions Yesterday's Ideas Can't Help Us With.
booknewsthis Is A Paperbound Reprint Of A 2000 Book. The Authors (whose Affiliations Are Not Stated) Apply The Mathematical Tools Of Complexity Theory To Model Biological Processes In Terms Of Complex Dynamics From Which Characteristic Patterns Of Order Emerge. They Examine Genetic Networks, Chaos In Brain Function, Emergent Phenomenon Of Ant Colonies, The Nonlinear Behavior Of Complex Ecologies, And Fractal Cities. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com)
Categories:
- Science & Math
- Physics
- Chaos Theory
- Physics
Publisher : Basic Books
Author : Goodwin, Brian,Sole, Ricard
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2002-01-04
Number Of Pages : 336
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0465019285
ISBN-13 : 9780465019281
Item weight : 1.28 lb
Dimensions : 0.85 in x 6 in x 9 in
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