The origins of order : self organization and selection in evolution /
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Author / Creator: | Kauffman, Stuart A. |
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Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. |
Description: | xviii, 709 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1500808 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Conceptual Outline of Current Evolutionary Theory
- Part I. Adaptation on the Edge of Chaos
- 2. The Structure of Rugged Fitness Landscapes
- 3. Biological Implications of Rugged Fitness Landscapes
- 4. The Structure of Adaptive Landscapes Underlying Protein Evolution
- 5. Self Organization and Adaptation in Complex Systems
- 6. Coevolving Complex Systems
- Part II. The Crystallization of Life
- 7. The Origins of Life: A New View
- 8. The Origin of a Connected Metabolism
- 9. Autocatalytic Polynucleotide Systems: Hypercycles, Spin Glasses and Coding
- 10. Random Grammars
- Part III. Order and Ontogeny
- 11. The Architecture of Genetic Regulatory Circuits and Its Evolution
- 12. Differentiation: The Dynamical Behaviors of Genetic Regulatory Networks
- 13. Selection for Gene Expression in Cell Type
- 14. Morphology, Maps and the Spatial Ordering of Integrated Tissues