Perspectives on Organisms Biological time, Symmetries and Singularities /

• Main Authors: Longo, Giuseppe (Author), Montévil, Maël (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Philosophy.; Systems biology.; Developmental biology.; Biomathematics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Life Sciences.; Developmental Biology.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Philosophy, general.; Systems Biology.

This authored monograph introduces a genuinely theoretical approach to biology. Starting point is the investigation of empirical biological scaling including their variability, which is found in the literature, e.g. allometric relationships, fractals, etc. The book then analyzes two different aspect...