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Author Bird, R. J. (Richard J.)

Title Chaos and life : complexity and order in evolution and thought / Richard J. Bird
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 322 pages) : illustrations
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Dawn of Man? -- 1. Iteration and Sequence -- 2. The Crisis in Biology -- 3. The Origin of "Species" -- 4. Chaos and Dimensionality -- 5. Chaostability -- 6. The Geometry of Life -- 7. The Living Computer -- 8. Morphology and Evolution -- 9. Entropy, Information, and Randomness -- 10. The Effectiveness of Mathematics -- 11. Life and Conflict -- 12. The World as Iteration and Recursion -- Notes -- Index
Summary An alternative view of evolving complexity. Bird argues that randomness means not disorder but infinite order and that complexity arises from the "playing out" of chaotic systems
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Biology -- Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Biology.
Evolution (Biology)
Philosophy.
Biology
Biological Evolution
Philosophy
Nonlinear Dynamics
biology.
evolution.
philosophy.
NATURE -- Reference.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
Biology -- Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Philosophy
Evolution (Biology)
Biology
Biology -- Philosophy
Chaotic behavior in systems
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy
Biologie
Systemtheorie
Chaos.
Evolutionaire biologie.
Filosofie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0231501552
9780231501552