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A cybernetic view of biological growth : the Maia hypothesis /
"Maia is the story of an idea - and its development into a working hypothesis - that provides a cybernetic interpretation of how growth is controlled. Growth at this level is controlled by regulating the specific rate of growth. Access to control mechanism output is achieved by perturbing the g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Growth unlimited: blooms, swarms and plagues
- Self-regulating systems: from machines to humans
- The wealth of homeodynamic responses
- A cybernetic approach to growth analysis
- A control mechanism for Maia
- The three levels of adaptation
- Population growth and its control
- Hierarchy: a controlled harmony
- History of hormesis and links to homeopathy
- Maian mechanisms for hormesis and catch-up growth
- Cellular growth control and cancer
- Human overpopulation
- Our finite earth
- The Maia hypothesis and anagenesis.