Chaos and Life : : Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought / / Richard Bird.
Why, in a scientific age, do people routinely turn to astrologers, mediums, cultists, and every kind of irrational practitioner rather than to science to meet their spiritual needs? The answer, according to Richard J. Bird, is that science, especially biology, has embraced a view of life that render...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 48 illus., 10 photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The Dawn of Man?
- 1. Iteration and Sequence
- 2. The Crisis in Biology
- 3. The Origin of "Species"
- 4. Chaos and Dimensionality
- 5. Chaostability
- 6. The Geometry of Life
- 7. The Living Computer
- 8. Morphology and Evolution
- 9. Entropy, Information, and Randomness
- 10. The Effectiveness of Mathematics
- 11. Life and Conflict
- 12. The World as Iteration and Recursion
- Notes
- Index