Perspectives on Organisms : Biological time, Symmetries and Singularities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Longo, Giuseppe. (Author), Montévil, Maël. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis,
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.