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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xxviii + 364 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Part 1. From Gene to Species: Variability, Randomness, Stability 1. Emergence of Life: Some Notes on the Origin of Biological Information 2. Fluctuating RNA 3. Artificial Darwinian Evolution of Nucleic Acids 4. Information & Epigenetics 5. Molecular Forces & Motion in the Transmission of Information in Biology [Dynamics?function hypothesis; From thermodynamics to molecular forces; Like the devil, biology is in the details; Guitar in the river: theoretical MD; Experimental MD; Measuring average MD in whole cells; Dynamics response to stress; Conclusion: evolution 'is obliged' to select dynamics] 6. Decline & Contingency, Bases of Biological Evolution 7. Conservation, Co-evolution, Dynamics: From Sequence to Function 8. Localization of the Morphodynamic Information in Amniote Formation 9. From the Century of the Gene to that of the Organism: Introduction to New Theoretical Perspectives [Philosophical positions; From the inert to the living; Cell theory: starting point toward a theory of organisms; Founding principles: from entanglement to integration?] 10. Game of Survival, Chance, Complexity 11. Life from the Origins to Homo sapiens 12. Plankton Chronicles & the Tara Expeditions 13. Living Species is Not a Natural Kind but an Intellectual Construction [Two ways to study evolution: genealogy vs phylogeny; 3 main families of concepts of species; Reconciling the different concepts: pragmatism or essentialism?; Species & taxon name; Nature of species: a salutatory philosophical exercise] 14. Boxes & their Content: What to Do with Invariants in Biology [Natural history; Natural history & evolution; Species; Grade; Genetic information; Body plan; Misuse of convergences] 15. Probability, Sense & Evolution (Promenade) [Difficult dialogue; Knowledge & big data; Probabilities; A few striking examples; MCMC method; Neural networks; A few questions]; Part 2. Program & Life: Individuation & Interaction 16. Towards an Algorithmic Approach to Life Sciences 17. Where Does the Notion of Function Come From 18. Contribution of Artificial Life to Theoretical Biology 19. Biochemical Programs & Analog-Digital Mixed Algorithms in the Cell 20. From Computational Physics to the Origins of Life 21. Computing & Temptation of Babel [Role of information technologies; Conflicts of rationality; Information & its role in biology] 22. Big Data, Knowledge & Biology 23. Natural Language, Formal Language, Description of the Living World 24. Vital Individuation & Morphogenetic Information [Theory of vital individuation; Lamarck's ghost; DNA & its transductions; Schrodinger's flower] 25. How to Account for Interspecies Socio-cultural Phenomena? Evolutionist & Interactionist Model 26. Life: A Simplex Whirlwind between Matter, Energy & Information 27. Nutritional Interactions through the Living: from Individuals to Societies & Beyond [Living: a complex nutritional system; Nutrition at the individual & collective level; Toward a multilevel theory of nutrition] 28. Epigenetic Regulation of Protein Biosynthesis by Scale Resonance: Study of the Reduction of ESCA Effects on Vines in Field Applications 29. Quantum & Multiverse Inflation [Copernican & anti-Copernican revolutions; Selection criteria for the number of dimensions of space & time; Why is time monodimensional; Bones of the void; Buzz effect of inflation; Eye hears & recognizes the fundamental & harmonic] 30. Reontologization of the World & Life [Philosophy of information; Method & levels of abstraction; Inforgs & infosphere; Originality of the infosphere; Reontologization; Ethics of information] 31. Redesigning Life, a Serious & Credible Research Agenda? 32. Transhumanism & Future of Negation; Index.
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