Current Themes in Theoretical Biology A Dutch Perspective /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Reydon, Thomas A.C (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hemerik, Lia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Biology > Philosophy.; Biomathematics.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of Biology.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.

The present volume originated in 2001 when we, together with our publishing editors at (then) Kluwer Academic Publishers, realized that the th following year the 50 volume of our journal Acta Biotheoretica would see the light. We felt that this milestone should not pass unnoticed and that the approp...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The History of Acta Biotheoretica and the Nature of Theoretical Biology
• Images of the Genome: From Public Debates to Biology, and Back, and Forth
• The Functional Perspective of Organismal Biology
• Infectious Biology: Curse or Blessing? Reflections on Biology in Other Disciplines, with a Case Study of Migraine
• The Composite Species Concept: A Rigorous Basis for Cladistic Practice
• The Wonderful Crucible of Life's Creation: An Essay on Contingency versus Inevitability of Phylogenetic Development
• The Symbiontic Nature of Metabolic Evolution
• The Founder and Allee Effects in the Patch Occupancy Metapopulation Model
• Balancing Statistics and Ecology: Lumping Experimental Data for Model Selection
• Resilience and Persistence in the Context of Stochastic Population Models
• Evolution of Specialization and Ecological Character Displacement: Metabolic Plasticity Matters.