The Origins of Order
Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 September 1993
- ISBN 9780195079517
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages734 pages
- Size 233x155x33 mm
- Weight 1002 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, numerous line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
In what will certainly be one of the key works in the emerging science of complexity, Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology. It extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The book drives to the heart of the exciting debate on the origins of life and maintenance of order in complex biological systems. It focuses on the concept of self-organization - the first time this concept has been incorporated into evolutionary theory. The book shows how complex systems, contrary to expectations, can spontaneously exhibit stunning degrees of order, and how this order in turn is essential for the emergence and development of life on Earth. Origins of Order will advance our understanding of evolution and provoke considerable discussion among evolutionary, molecular, and developmental biologists.
MoreLong description:
In what will certainly be one of the key works in the emerging science of complexity, Kauffman here presents a brilliant new paradigm for evolutionary biology. It extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The book drives to the heart of the exciting debate on the origins of life and maintenance of order in complex biological systems. It focuses on the concept of self-organization - the first time this concept has been incorporated into evolutionary theory. The book shows how complex systems, contrary to expectations, can spontaneously exhibit stunning degrees of order, and how this order in turn is essential for the emergence and development of life on Earth. Origins of Order will advance our understanding of evolution and provoke considerable discussion among evolutionary, molecular, and developmental biologists.
. . . an integrative book that will become a landmark and a classic as we grope towards a more comprehensive and satisfying theory of evolution.
Table of Contents:
Conceptual outline of current evolutionary theory
Part I: Adaptation on the edge of chaos
The structure of rugged fitness landscapes
Biological implications of rugged fitness landscapes
The structure of adaptive landscapes underlying protein evolution
Self organization and adaptation in complex systems
Coevolving complex systems
Part II: The crystallization of life
The origins of life: a new view
The origin of a connected metabolism
Autocatalytic polynucleotide systems: hypercycles, spin glasses and coding
Random grammars
Part III: Order and ontogeny
The architecture of genetic regulatory circuits and its evolution
Differentiation: the dynamical behaviors of genetic regulatory networks
Selection for gene expression in cell type
Morphology, maps and the spatial ordering of integrated tissues
