Some thoughts on the requirements for a theory of biology

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Fox

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 366 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1522-9602
• DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8240(73)80003-5

✦ Synopsis

and the Department of Biomathematics, UCLA Complexity and stability are the ubiquitous characteristics of all biological phenomena. The theoretical suggestions presented here acknowledge this and attempt to capitalize on the property of selectiveness that complexity induces. It is from this that a belief in the existence of selection rules emerges. What is required of a viable theory is a linguistic means of maneuvering known information so that these selection or limitation rules may be obtained, and thence, by their manipulation, to generate the properties exhibited by biological systems.