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F. Eugene Yates, ed.
Self-Organizing Systems: the emergence of order.
Plenum. 1987

Contents

General introduction to Self-Organizing Systems. 1987
Examples of evolving physical systems. 1987
Harry Soodak. On origins: galaxies, stars, life. 1987
Arthur S. Iberall. On rivers. 1987
Donald O. Walter, F. Eugene Yates. Genesis and evolution of life. 1987
Harold J. Morowitz. A hardware view of biological organization. 1987
Leslie E. Orgel. The origin of self-replicating molecules. 1987
Peter Schuster, Karl Sigmund. Self-organization of macromolecules. 1987
Stephen Jay Gould. Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?. 1987
Gregory B. Yates. Differentiation. morphogenesis, and death of organisms. 1987
William B. Wood. Virus assembly and its genetic control. 1987
Vladimir Glisin. Molecular biology in embryology: the sea urchin embryo. 1987
Brian C. Goodwin. Developing organisms as self-organising fields. 1987
Alan Garfinkel. The slime mold Dictyostelium as a model of self-organization in social systems. 1987
Caleb E. Finch. The orderly decay of order in the regulation of the aging processes. 1987
Donald O. Walter. Networks, neural organization, and behavior. 1987
Richard Bellman, Ramin Roosta. On a class of self-organizing communication networks. 1987
Gunther S. Stent. Neural circuits for generating rhythmic movements. 1987
Christoph von der Malsberg. Ordered retinotectal projections and brain organization. 1987
Michael A. Arbib. A view of brain theory. 1987
Gregory B. Yates. Epistemology of self-orgainzation. 1987
Francisco J. Ayala. Biological reductionism: the problems and some answers. 1987
Howard H. Pattee. Instabilities and information in biological self-organization. 1987
Gunther S. Stent. Programmatic phenomena, hermeneutics, and neurobiology. 1987
Control theory view of self-organization. 1987
Edwin B. Stear. Control paradigms and self-organization in living systems. 1987
Rajko Tomovic. Control theory and self-reproduction. 1987
Physics of self-organization. 1987
Hermann Haken. Synergetics: an approach to self-organization. 1987
Rolf Landauer. Role of relative stability in self-repair and self-maintenance. 1987
Philip W. Anderson, Daniel L. Stein. Broken symmetry, emergent properties, dissipative structures, life: are they related?. 1987
Harry Soodak, Arthur S. Iberall. Thermodynamics and complex systems. 1987
Extensions of physical views of self-organization. 1987
Eduardo R. Caianiello. A thermodynamic approach to self-organizing systems. 1987
Charles Arthur Muses. Interfaces between quantum physics and bioenergetics. 1987
Arthur S. Iberall, Harry Soodak. A physics for complex systems. 1987
Arthur S. Iberall. A physics for studies of civilisation. 1987
Gregory B. Yates. Topological representation of self-organization. 1987
Ralph H. Abraham, Christopher D. Shaw. Dynamics: a visual introduction. 1987
Ralph H. Abraham. Dynamics and self-organization. 1987
Quantumstuff and biostuff: a view of patterns of convergence in contemporary science. 1987