Cover of Signs Of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology

Signs Of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology

Signs of Lifeis an entirely new approach to the problems of understanding living systems. It applies the mathematics of order and disorder, of entropy, chance, and randomness, of chaos and nonlinear dynamics to the various mysteries of the living world at all levels. Less a set of answers than a guide to thinking about living systems, this book will help set the agenda for biology in the coming century.

Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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