How the leopard changed its spots the evolution of complexity /
Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? This intervention into biological thinking argues that such genetic reductionism has limits. It shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networ...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2001.
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Édition: | [New ed.] / |
Collection: | Princeton science library.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Whatever happened to organisms?
- How the leopard got its spots
- Life, the excitable medium
- Living form in the making
- Evolution of generic forms
- New directions, new metaphors
- Science of qualities.