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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Scaling and scale symmetries in biological systems
• A 2-dimensional geometry for biological time
• Protention and retention in biological systems
• Symmetry and symmetry breakings in physics
• Critical phase transitions
• From physics to biology by extending criticality and symmetry Breakings
• Biological phase spaces and enablement
• Biological order as a consequence of randomness: Anti-entropy and symmetry changes
• A philosophical survey on how we moved from Physics to Biology.