Perspectives on Organisms Biological time, Symmetries and Singularities /

This authored monograph introduces a genuinely theoretical approach to biology. Starting point is the investigation of empirical biological scaling including their variability, which is found in the literature, e.g. allometric relationships, fractals, etc. The book then analyzes two different aspect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Longo, Giuseppe (Autor), Montévil, Maël (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis,
Temas:
Developmental biology.
Biomathematics.
Biophysics.
Philosophy.
Bioinformatics.
Developmental Biology and Stem Cells.
Mathematical and Computational Biology.
Computational and Systems Biology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
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.

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