Biogenesis Evolution Homeostasis A Symposium by Correspondence /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Locker, Alfred. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1973.
Edición:1st ed. 1973.
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95235-7
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.