The Geometry of Biological Time
As 1 review these pages, the last of them written in Summer 1978, some retrospec tive thoughts come to mind which put the whole business into better perspective for me and might aid the prospective reader in choosing how to approach this volume. The most conspicuous thought in my mind at present is...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1980, 1980
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1980 |
| Series: | Springer Study Edition
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Circular Logic
- 2. Phase Singularities (Screwy Results of Circular Logic)
- 3. The Rules of the Ring
- 4. Ring Populations
- 5. Getting off the Ring
- 6. Attracting Cycles and Isochrons
- 7. Measuring the Trajectories of a Circadian Clock
- 8. Populations of Attractor Cycle Oscillators
- 9. Excitable Kinetics and Excitable Media
- 10. The Varieties of Phaseless Experience: In Which the Geometrical Orderliness of Rhythmic Organization Breaks Down in Diverse Ways
- 11. The Firefly Machine
- 12. Energy Metabolism in Cells
- 13. The Malonic Acid Reagent (“Sodium Geometrate”)
- 14. Electrical Rhythmicity and Excitability in Cell Membranes
- 15. The Aggregation of Slime Mold Amoebae
- 16. Growth and Regeneration
- 17. Arthropod Cuticle
- 18. Pattern Formation in the Fungi
- 19. Orcadian Rhythms in General
- 20. The Circadian Clocks of Insect Eclosion
- 21. The Flower of Kalanchoe
- 22. The Cell Mitotic Cycle
- 23. The Female Cycle
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects