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|a Conrad, M.
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|a Adaptability
|h Elektronische Ressource
|b The Significance of Variability from Molecule to Ecosystem
|c edited by M. Conrad
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|a 1st ed. 1983
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|c 1983, 1983
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|a 4.1. Behavioral Description -- 4.2. Statistical Measures -- 4.3. Fundamental Identity -- 4.4. Fundamental Inequality -- 4.5. Regular Capacity -- 4.6. Time Scales and Information Flow -- 4.7. Information Transfer Picture -- 4.8. Further Remarks on Information Transfer -- 4.9. Two-Time Formalism -- 4.10. Diversity of Behavior -- 4.11. The Variability of Biological Matter -- Addendum: Structural Correspondence between Transition Scheme and Two-Time Formalism -- References -- 5. Hierarchical Aspect of Biological Organization -- 5.1. Compartmental Structure of the Ecosystem -- 5.2. States of Compartments -- 5.3. Reference Structures -- 5.4. Transition Schemes Again -- 5.5. The Canonical Representation -- 5.6. Statistical Laws -- 5.7. Interpretation of the Terms -- 5.8. Further Biological Correlates -- References -- 6. Evolutionary Tendency of Adaptability -- 6.1. The BasicArgument -- 6.2. General Mechanisms -- 6.3. Correlation and Decorrelation Mechanisms --
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|a 12.8. Detritus Pathway as Buffer System -- 12.9. Trophic Collapse and Trophic Elongation -- 12.10. Niche Divergence and Niche Convergence -- 12.11. Adaptability, Complexity, and the Stability of History -- 12.12. Succession to Instability -- References -- 13. Evolution and the Organization of Potentiality -- 13.1. Adaptability Theory of Species Formation -- 13.2. Lack of Adaptability in the Sexual Mechanism -- 13.3. Biogeographic Radiation and Volume of Life -- 13.4. Species Senescence and Evolution to Instability -- 13.5. Biological Organization and the History of Uncertainty (Review of the Theory) -- 13.6. The Limits of Predictability -- References -- 14. The Age of Design -- 14.1. The Limitations of Prediction, Efficiency, and Planning -- 14.2. The Design of Economic Societies -- 14.3. Blind Chance and Better Chance -- Reference
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|a 6.4. Apparent Paradox of Competition -- 6.5. Mechanisms and Modes of Adaptability -- 6.6. Dispensing with Adaptability -- 6.7. Physiological Tendencies -- 6.8. Upper Bound of Adaptability -- 6.9. Self-Consistency of Hierarchical Adaptability Theory -- 6.10. Segregation of Genotype and Phenotype -- 6.11. Operational Definition of Adaptability -- References -- 7. The Meaning of Efficiency -- 7.1. The Connection between Efficiency and Fitness -- 7.2. Thermodynamic Parameters of Efficiency -- 7.3. Fitness and Efficiency in the Light of Thermodynamics -- 7.4. Reformulating Statements about Efficiency -- 7.5. Biomass and Turnover in the Context of Efficiency -- 7.6. Evolution of Efficiency -- References -- 8. The Connection between Adaptability and Dynamics -- 8.1. Autonomy, Predictability, and the Bath of Unrepresented Adaptabilities -- 8.2. Biology of Stability, Instability, and Bifurcation -- 8.3. Interpretation of a Classical Model and Significance of Chaos -- 8.4. H(??) versus ?? --
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|a 11. Compensation in Organisms and Populations -- 11.1. Homeostasis -- 11.2. The Niche and Its Role in Compensation -- 11.3. Factors Affecting the Allocation of the Entropies -- 11.4. The Connection between Adaptability and Complexity -- 11.5. Fundamental Constraints -- 11.6. Patterns of Adaptability in Populations -- 11.7. Evolution of the Higher Nervous System as Compensation -- 11.8. Example of a Different Kind (Homeothermy versus Poikilothermy) -- 11.9. Vector Diagrams -- 11.10. Implications for the Etiology of Disease -- 11.11. Implications for the Treatment of Disease -- 11.12. Adaptability versus Adaptation -- References -- 12. Organization and Succession of Ecosystems -- 12.1. Microcosm Experiments and the Reality of Control -- 12.2. Ergodic Analogy -- 12.3. Evolutionary versus Ecological Stability -- 12.4. Environmental Homeostasis -- 12.5. Food Webs and Conservation Laws -- 12.6. Formal Connections to Components of Adaptability -- 12.7. Species Diversity --
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|a 1. The Ecosystem Process -- 1.1. Pond Water in a Flask -- 1.2. The Uncertain Ecosystem -- 1.3. Balance -- 1.4. The Theory of Evolution -- 2. The Laws of Dissipation -- 2.1. Energy and Entropy Transformations in Open Systems -- 2.2. The Importance of Dissipation -- 2.3. Statistical Significance of Dissipation -- 2.4. Breaking the Conservation Law -- 2.5. Further Remarks on the Origin of Irreversibility -- 2.6. Forgetting Perturbation -- 2.7. Ignoring Perturbation -- 2.8. Reducing Perturbation and the Significance of Quantum Variability -- References -- 3. The Dissipative Ecosystem -- 3.1. Selective Dissipation and Self-Reproduction -- 3.2. Self-Assembly and Self-Reorganization -- 3.3. Dissipative Patterns and Dissipative Repatterning -- 3.4. Patterns of Activity -- 3.5. Information Unbound -- 3.6. Information and Organization -- 3.7. The Chessboard Analogy -- 3.8. The Forgetful Ecosystem -- References -- 4. Statistical Aspect of Biological Organization --
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|a References -- 9. The Connection between Adaptability and Reliability -- 9.1. Embedded Communication Network and the In-Principle Solution -- 9.2. Essentials of the Proof -- 9.3. More General Situations and Qualifying Comments -- 9.4. Biochemical Proofreading -- 9.5. Interdependence of Reliability and Adaptability -- References -- 10. Adaptability Theory Analysis of the Genotype-Phenotype Relationship -- 10.1. The Mutation-Absorption Paradigm -- 10.2. Formalization of the Mutation-Absorption Model -- 10.3. The Bootstrap Principle of Evolutionary Adaptability -- 10.4. Issue of Neutralism and Significance of the Magnitudes -- 10.5. Adaptability of the Adaptive Landscape -- 10.6. Extension to Multigene Systems -- 10.7. Bootstrapping of theCyclic Nucleotide System -- 10.8. The Buffer Structure Principle of Phenotypic Organization -- 10.9. Bootstrapping Is Possible Only in Nondecomposable Systems -- 10.10. Relation to Other Discussions of Evolution and Development -- References --
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