CHAPTER 3 Life, the Excitable Medium

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE TO THE PRINCENTON SCIENCE LIBRARY EDITION vii
4. PREFACE xi
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix
6. CHAPTER 1 Whatever Happened to Organisms? 1
7. CHAPTER 2 How the Leopard Got Its Spots 18
8. CHAPTER 3 Life, the Excitable Medium 42
9. CHAPTER 4 Living Form in the Making 77
10. CHAPTER 5 The Evolution of Generic Forms 115
11. CHAPTER 6 New Directions, New Metaphors 169
12. CHAPTER 7 A Science of Qualities 196
13. REFERENCES 238
14. FURTHER READING 242
15. INDEX 245