Evolution, Development and Complexity : Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems - Georgiev, Georgi Yordanov

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Résumé :
Section 1- Universe.- Chapter 1- Cosmological Natural Selection and the Function of Life.- Chapter 2- Evolutionary Development: A Universal Perspective.- Chapter 3- Life, the Universe, and almost Everything: Signs of Cosmic Design?.- Chapter 4- Universal Ethics: Organized Complexity as an Intrinsic Value.- Chapter 5- Inductive Probabilities in Astrobiology and SETI: Have Sceptics Retreated?.- Section 2- Multiscale Complexity.- Chapter 6- The Equivalence of Free Energy and Information.- Chapter 7- A Multi-scale View of the Emergent Complexity of Life: A Free-energy Proposal.- Chapter 8- Action and Power Efficiency in Self-Organization: Growth Efficiency as a Cellular Objective in E. coli.- Chapter 9- On the Relation Between Swarm and Evolutionary Dynamics and Complex Networks.- Chapter 10- Universal Darwinism and the Origins of Order.- Section 3- Biology.- Chapter 11- Complexity, Development, and Evolution in Morphogenetic Collective Systems.- Chapter 12- Comparative Genomics of Convergent Evolution.- Chapter 13- Why Functional Genomics is Central Concern of Biology and the Hard Problem of Abiogenesis.- Chapter 14- Synergy and the Bioeconomics of Complexity.- Section 4- Society.- Chapter 15- Disease Surveillance: Design Principles from Immunology.- Chapter 16- Special Operations Forces as a Global Immune System.- Chapter 17- Applying Evolutionary Meta-Strategies to Human Problems.- Chapter 18- Complexity Dynamics in Small Groups.- Chapter 19- Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems....