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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