New Information in Evolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. I. General Problems
5. Information and Cybernetic Aspects of Biological Thermodynamics 3
6. Some Relations of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Open Systems 19
7. The Statistical Background of the Clansdorff-Prigogine Criterion 35
8. Thermodynamic Analogies in Statistical Theory of Dynamic Systems 55
9. Stochastic Criterion in Dynamical Systems 73
10. Phases with Internal Degrees of Freedom and Their Heterogeneous Transformations 77
11. II. Information Theory
12. Towards a Dynamic Information Theory 93
13. On the Problem of the Valuability of Information 105
14. Relativistic Information and Biology 121
15. III. Thermodynamics of Information Processes
16. Entropy and Information The Supernatural Actions of Maxwell's Demon 139
17. Thermodynamics and Information 169
18. Entropy of Information Theory and Thermodynamic Entropy 175
19. Optimal Thermodynamic Processes Under Chemical Reactions and Diffusion 181
20. IV. Control and Regulation in Biological Systems
21. Order and Disorder in Biological Control Systems 205
22. Simple Feedback System Used to Model Biomolecular Reactions in Drug-Receptor Populations 213
23. Towards a Stochastic Theory of Photoreception 229
24. Temperature Homeostasis and Principles of its Regulation in the Living Organism 243
25. V. Extremal Principles
26. An Extremal Principle for Biomass Diversity in Ecology 257
27. Optimal Principle and Temperature Conditions For the Existence of Animals 275
28. Optimal Heat Insulation of Homeotherms 289
29. Thermodynamics of Processes and the Evolution of Simple Biothermodynamic Populations 305
30. VI. Synergetics - The Problems of Seiforganisation
31. Self-Organisation Processes and Their Modelling 333
32. Stochastic Dissipative Structures 343
33. Symmetry Breaking Instabilities in Chemical Systems 353
34. Dynamic Model of the Origin of Order in Controlled Macrosystems 383
35. VII. The Problems of Evolution
36. Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Hypercycles 401
37. New Information in Evolution 415
38. State Spread and Evolution in Chemical Systems 429
39. Stochastic Models of Evolutionary Processes 437
40. Bioenergetic Trends of Evolutionary Progress of Organisms 451
41. VIII. Ontogenesis
42. Continuous Phase Transitions and Morphogenesis 461
43. Stability of Ontogenesis 485
44. Analysis of Homeorhesis in Ontogenetic, Population and Evolutionary Aspects 497
45. Thermodynamic Aspects of Plant Ontogenesis 509
46. Concluding Remarks 520
47. List of Contributors 522
48. References 525
49. Subject Index 565
50. Backmatter 574