Perspectives on Organisms : Biological time, Symmetries and Singularities - Longo, Giuseppe; Montévil, Maël.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Introduction -- Scaling and scale symmetries in biological systems -- A 2-dimensional geometry for biological time -- Protention and retention in biological systems -- Symmetry and symmetry breakings in physics -- Critical phase transitions -- From physics to biology by extending criticality and symmetry Breakings -- Biological phase spaces and enablement -- Biological order as a consequence of randomness: Anti-entropy and symmetry changes -- A philosophical survey on how we moved from Physics to Biology.
Keywords: Developmental biology; Biomathematics; Biophysics; Biological physics; Philosophy; Systems biology; Developmental Biology; Mathematical and Computational Biology; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics; Philosophy, general; Systems Biology