Optimality Principles in Biology

  • Robert Rosen
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. General Considerations
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 1-12
  3. Basic Mathematical Techniques
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 13-40
  4. The Vascular System
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 41-60
  5. Ontogeny and Phylogeny
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 61-70
  6. Optimality and the Allometric Law
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 71-86
  7. Optimality and D’arcy Thompson’s Theory of Transformations
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 87-104
  8. Homeostasis in Biology: General Orientation
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 105-115
  9. Input-Output Systems
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 116-132
  10. Some Biological Regulators
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    Pages 133-154
  11. Dynamical Systems and Control Theory
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 155-165
  12. Adaptive Systems in Biology
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 166-183
  13. Biology and the Social Sciences
    Robert Rosen
    Pages 184-194
  14. Back Matter
    Pages 195-198
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About this book

Keywords

biology life sciences

Authors and affiliations

  • Robert Rosen
    • 1
  1. 1.Committee on Mathematical BiologyThe University of ChicagoUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6419-9
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media New York 1967
  • Publisher Name Springer, Boston, MA
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-1-4899-6207-2
  • Online ISBN 978-1-4899-6419-9
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