Short Essays on
Theoretical Biology

Edited By Dimitar Velkov
November 2005
Heron Press
ISBN: 9545801719
108 pages, Illustrated, 6 ½" x 9 ½"
$99.50 Hardcover

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This book comprises 26 essays, each one presenting a survey of the main contributions and innovative concepts of some of the most influential scholars in the field of Theoretical Biology. Their works and ideas have shaped this discipline, while paving the road which led biology to its epochal 20th century advances.

Most of the articles included in this book have been presented and discussed by Dimitar Velkov during the sessions of the Interdisciplinary Academy over the period 2001-2003. They were published in English in the Proceedings of the Academy, and served as a basis of his monograph 'Theoretical Biology.'

PARTIAL CONTENTS: Germ Cells Transmit Hereditary Information (Weisman). Cost of Natural Selection (Haldane). Genetic Drift &Shifting Balance Theory (Wright). General System Theory (von Bertalanffy). What is Life? (Schrodinger). Role of Bifurcation in Biology (Prigogine). Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution (Kimura). Generative Structuralism (Goodwin). Punctuated Equilibrium (Gould). Collective Property of Complex Systems (Kauffman). Phylogenetic Tree (Woese). Index.

Biology

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