Biogenesis Evolution Homeostasis A Symposium by Correspondence - Locker, Alfred; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1973)
I. General Formal and Relational Aspects -- Systemogenesis as a Paradigm for Biogenesis -- Information Theory with Applications to Biogenesis and Evolution -- On the Origin of Information in Biological Systems and in Bioids (A) -- On the Evolutionary Origin of Life and the Definition and Nature of Organism: Relational Redundancies (A) -- II. Optimization and Evolution -- On the Dynamics and Trajectories of Evolution Processes -- The Limits on Optimization in Evolution -- III. Control and Homeostasis -- Physical Problems of the Origin of Natural Controls -- The Significance of Cooperative Interactions in Biochemical Control Systems (A) -- Organization of Glycolysis (A) -- Cell Models and the Homeostasis Problem (A) -- Contribution to a Mathematical Theory of Synergic Systems -- IV. Oscillation, Excitability and Evolution -- The Role of Precursors in Stimulating Oscillations in Autocatalytic Diffusion Coupled Systems -- Oscillatory Behavior of Enzymic Activities: A New Type of Metabolic Control System (A) -- The Existence of Synchronous States in Populations of Oscillators -- Reactions of Model-Oscillations to External Stimuli Depending on the Type of Oscillation (A) -- Abiogenic Aspects of Biological Excitability. A General Theory for Evolution -- V. Statistics and Thermodynamics -- Thermodynamic and Statistical Theory of Life: An Outline -- Thermodynamic Potentials and Evolution towards the Stationary State in Open Systems of Far-from-Equilibrium Chemical Reactions: The Affinity Squared Minimum Function (A) -- Thermodynamic Stability and Spatio-Temporal Structures in Chemical Systems (A) -- Optimal Adaptation of the Metabolic Processes in the Cell (A) -- VI. Metabolic Evolution -- On the Generation of Metabolic Novelties in Evolution -- Circular Nucleic Acids in Evolution (A) -- VII. Time and Evolution -- Physiological Time and Its Evolution -- Timeless Order -- VIII. Learning, Memory and Evolution -- The Ontogenesis of Purposive Activity -- Some General Problems of Memory -- Role of Glycoproteins in Neural Ontogenesis, Membrane Phenomena, and Memory (A) -- On Controlled and Totally Neural-Replies Generated Concepts for Biology and Functional Brain Theory -- Remarks on Mathematical Brain Models -- IX. Conclusion -- How to Conceive of Biogenesis (A Reflection Instead of a Summary) -- (A): Abstract.
Keywords: Medicine; Evolutionary biology; Life sciences; Biomedicine, general; Evolutionary Biology; Life Sciences, general