Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lässig, M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Valleriani, A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 585
• Subjects: Evolutionary biology.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Bioinformatics.; Biomathematics.; Evolutionary Biology.; Complex Systems.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.
• Physical Description: XII, 342 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540456926
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45692-9

This set of lecture notes gives a first coherent account of a novel aspect of the living world that can be called biological information. The book presents both a pedagogical and state-of-the art roadmap of this rapidly evolving area and covers the whole field, from information which is encoded in the molecular genetic code to the description of large-scale evolution of complex species networks. The book will prove useful for all those who work at the interface of biology, physics and information science.