Theoretical biology : epigenetic and evolutionary order from complex systems / Brian Goodwin and Peter Saunders, editors.

Based on a conference held in Oaxtepec, Mexico, Sept. 1987.

Includes bibliographical references.

An inventory of Waddington concepts / R. Thom -- A new concept of stability / C. Zeeman -- Bifurcations and the epigenetic landscape / P.T. Saunders and C. Kubal -- Pattern formation and pattern selection in reaction-diffusion systems / J.C. Eilbeck -- Are there rules governing patterns of gene regulation? / M.A. Savageau -- Origins of order in evolution : self-organisation and selection / S.A. Kauffman -- Evolution and the generative order / B.C. Goodwin -- The physics of complex organisation / P.C.W. Davies -- Adaptive strategies gleaned from immune networks : viability theory and comparison with classified systems / F.J. Varela, V. Schez-Leighton and A. Coutinho -- The adaptation of complex systems / B.A. Huberman -- Communication and organisation in developing systems : a field viewpoint of positional information / L.E.H. Trainor -- Membrane phase transitions / F. Lara-Ochoa -- Coherent excitations and the physical foundations of life / M.-W. Ho -- Discrete aspects of morphogenesis and gene dynamics / G. Cocho and J.L. Rius -- Time and space scales in neurophysiology / A.A. Minzoni and F. Alonso-deFlorida -- Formal languages and theoretical molecular biology / M.A. Jim{u296E}ez-Monta -- Towards a grammatical paradigm for the study of the regulation of gene expression / J. Collado-Vides.