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- Complexity science
- Evolution of viruses and bacteria
- Evolution of sensory systems
- Evolutionary aspects in economy
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics (NAPSB)
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Evolution is a critical challenge for many areas of science, technology and development of society. The book reviews general evolutionary facts such as origin of life and evolution of the genome and clues to evolution through simple systems. Emerging areas of science such as "systems biology" and "bio-complexity" are founded on the idea that phenomena need to be understood in the context of highly interactive processes operating at different levels and on different scales. This is where physics meets complexity in nature, and where we must begin to learn about complexity if we are to understand it. Similarly, there is an increasingly urgent need to understand and predict the evolutionary behavior of highly interacting man-made systems, in areas such as communications and transport, which permeate the modern world. The same applies to the evolution of human networks such as social, political and financial systems, where technology has tended to vastly increase both the complexity and speed of interaction, which is sometimes effectively instantaneous. The book contains reviews on such diverse areas as evolution experiments with microorganisms, the origin and evolution of viruses, evolutionary dynamics of genes and environment in cancer development, aging as an evolution-facilitating program, evolution of vision and evolution of financial markets.
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Book Title: Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales
Editors: Arne T. Skjeltorp, Alexander V. Belushkin
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8761-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8760-8Published: 23 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8759-2Published: 30 September 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8761-5Published: 26 September 2008
Series ISSN: 1874-6500
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6535
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 186
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Evolutionary Biology, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, Complex Systems, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems