Waddington,TOWARDS A THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.PROLEGOMENA,1969[storia biologia,IUBS

C. H. Waddington (ed.),
TOWARDS A THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.
1. PROLEGOMENA.
An IUBS Symposium.
Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago 1969,
copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, cm.18x26, pp.234,
testo in inglese,
peso: g.888
cod.3762
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INDICE
PRE-CIRCU LATE D PAPERS
The basic ideas of biology : C. H. Waddington, p. 1
Comments : René Thom, p. 32
Cause and effect in biology: Ernst Mayr, p. 42
Comments : C. H. Waddington, p. 55
SYMPOSIUM PAPERS
An approach to a blueprint for a primitive organism :
A.G.Cairns-Smith, p. 57
The physical basis of coding and reliability in biological
evolution : H. H. Pattee, p. 67
Towards a physical theory of self-orgnization : Karl Kornacker, p. 94
A party game model of biological replication : D. Michie and
C. Longuet-Higgins, p. 96
Comments : H. H. Pattee, p. 101
Theoretical biology and molecular biology: C. H.Waddington, p. 103
A note on evolution and changes in the quantity of genetic
information : C. H. Waddington and R.C.Lewontin, p. 109
Does evolution depend on random search ? : C. H. Waddington, p. 111
The counting problem : J. Maynard Smith, p. 120
The French flag problem : Lewis Wolpert, p. 125
The division of cells and the fusion of ideas : Brian Goodwin, p. 134
Tolerance spaces and the brain : E. C.Zeeman and 0. P. Buneman, p. 140
Une théorie dynamique de la morphogénèse : René Thom, p. 1 52
Correspondence : C. H. Waddington and René Thom, p. 166
Constants of nature : biological theory and natural law : Paul Lieber, p. 180
'Boxes' as a model of pattern formation : Donald Michie and
R.A. Chambers, p. 206
PROJECTIONS
Note on topics for the second Symposium : Brian Goodwin, p. 21 6
Comments by C. H. Waddington, H.H. Pattee, and W. M. Elsasser, p. 218
INDEX
Participants p. 223 : Author p. 227 : Subject p. 230