Physical Approaches to Biological Evolut
β V Volkenstein M.
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Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution
β Scribed by Professor Mikhail V. Volkenstein (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 409
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
"Mr. Wolkenstein's Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution, whether or not it proves to give the ultimate truth on the matters with which it deals, certainly deserves, by its breadth and scope and profundity, to be considered an imporΒ tant event in the philosophical world." This is a quotation from an introduction written by Bertrand Russell for Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I exchanged only name and subject. As for the rest, I could continue quoting Russell, but I would rather say something myself. As Wittgenstein did with formal logic, Wolkenstein rectifies our views on how to approach the logic of life from a formal theoretical basis. Many bioΒ logists do not believe that their subject lends itself to the scrutiny of physical theory. They certainly admit that one can simulate biological phenomena by models that can be expressed in a mathematical form. However, they do not believe that biology can be given a theoretical foundation that is defined within the general framework of physics. Rather, they insist on a holistic approach, banning any reduction to fundamental principles subject to physical theory.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-37
Evolutionary Methods....Pages 38-68
Directionality of Evolution....Pages 69-104
Adaptation....Pages 105-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Proteins....Pages 127-177
Neutrality of Point Mutations....Pages 178-218
The Molecular Drive....Pages 219-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Physical Theory of Molecular Evolution....Pages 253-294
Chaos and Order in Evolution....Pages 295-334
Informational Aspects of Evolution....Pages 335-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-399
β¦ Subjects
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Cell Biology;Biochemistry, general;Biophysics and Biological Physics;Zoology;Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
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