Adaptability The Significance of Variability from Molecule to Ecosystem
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1983, 1983
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1983 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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 ??
- 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
- 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
- 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