Perspectives on Organisms : Biological time, Symmetries and Singularities /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Longo, Giuseppe. (Autor), Montévil, Maël. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis,
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.