Complexity, Chaos, and Biological Evolution -

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Section I: An Introductory Overview.- Structure, Complexity and Chaos in Living Systems.- Probing Dynamics of the Cerebral Cortex.- Chaos and Bifurcations During Voiced Speech.- The Ultradian Clock: Timekeeping for Intracellular Dynamics.- Section II: Complex Dynamics in Physiological Control Systems.- Complex Dynamics in the Kidney Microcirculation.- Aspects of Oscillatory Insulin Secretion.- The Dynamic Code: Information Transfer in Hormonal Systems.- Structural Amplification in Chemical Networks.- Section III: Membrane Activity and Cell to Cell Signalling.- Periodicity and Chaos in cAMP, Hormonal and Ca2+ Signalling.- Fractal, Chaotic, and Self-Organizing Critical System: Descriptions of the Kinetics of Cell Membrane Ion Channels.- A Discontinuous Model for Membrane Activity.- Chaos in Coupled Nerve Cells.- Analysis of the Adenine Nucleotide Pool in an Oscillating Extract of Yeast Saccharomyces uvarum.- Boundary Operator and Distance Measure for the Cell Lineage of Caenorhabditis elegans and for the Pattern in Fusarium solani.- Section IV: Evolutionary Dynamics and Artificial Life.- Mutations and Selection in Evolutionary Processes.- Considerations of Stability in Models of Primitive Life: Effect of Errors and Error Propagation.- Information Dynamics of Self-Programmable Matter.- The Problem of Medium-Independence in Artificial Life.- An Optimality Approach to Ageing.- Modelling of Complex Systems by Simulated Annealing.- Section V: Biological Structures and Morphogenesis.- Generic Dynamics of Morphogenesis.- Models of Biological Pattern Formation and Their Application to the Early Development of Drosophila.- Reaction-Diffusion Prepatterns (Turing Structures): Supercomputer Simulation of Cytokinesis, Mitosis and Early Drosophila Morphogenesis.- Vortex Formation in Excitable Media.- Bone Remodeling.- Section VI: Chaos and Hyperchaos.- Childhood Infections - Examples of Chaos in the Wild.- Multifractal Analysis of Morphological Patterns in Normal and Malignant Human Tissues.- Method of Compatible Vectorfield in Studying Integrability of 3-Dimensional Dynamical Systems.- Discrete Steps Up the Dynamic Hierarchy.- Hyperchaotic Phenomena in Dynamic Decision Making.- Participants.