Principles of Evolution From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life / edited by Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Stefan Thurner.

With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution. The questions it asks concern the beginnings of the universe, the origin of life and the chances of its arising at all, the role of cont...

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Other Authors: Meyer-Ortmanns, Hildegard (Editor), Thurner, Stefan (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Part I Principles of Evolution -- Physical Principles of Evolution -- The Interplay of Replication, Variation and Selection in the Dynamics of Evolving Populations -- A Simple General Model of Evolutionary Dynamics -- Can we Recognize an Innovation? Perspective from an Evolving Network Model -- Part II From Random to Complex Structures: The Concept of Self-Organization for Galaxies, Asters and Spindles -- How Stochastic Dynamics far from Equilibrium can Create Nonrandom Patterns -- Structure Formation in the Universe -- The Need for Quantum Cosmology -- Self-Organization in Cells -- Part III Protocells in Silico and In Vitro -- Approach of Complex-Systems Biology to Reproduction and Evolution -- Wet Artificial Life: The Construction of Artificial Living Systems -- Towards a Minimal System for Cell Division -- Part IV From Cells to Societies -- Bacterial Games -- Darwin and the Evolution of Human Cooperation -- Similarities Between Biological and Social Networks in their Structural Organization -- From Swarms to Societies: Origins of Social Organization -- Index. 
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