PROGRESS IN THEORETICAL BIOLOGY. EDITED BY ROBERT ROSEN AND FRED M. SNELL. NEW YORK, LONDON: ACADEMIC PRESS

Progress in Theoretical Biology, Volume 2, brings together the significant and timely theoretical developments in particular areas of biology in a critical and synthetic manner. It is concerned with a field which has emerged as an identifiable subdiscipline of the biological sciences. This emergence and recognition signify that biological science has evolved from its initial stage of description and classification into the adolescence of transformation to the quantitative. The book's opening chapter develops a theory that uses a new generalization of statistical mechanics to provide a basis for understanding how the microscopic behavior of nonliving parts can generate the macroscopic appearance of a living aggregate. The subsequent chapters discuss theoretical methods in systematic and evolutionary studies; the theory of neural masses; the design of chemical reaction systems; cooperative processes in biological systems; and the organization of motor systems. This book is intended for the modern biological scientist as well as for the physical scientist who is inquisitive of the ways of the most complex of all processes. Content: Advisory Board , Page ii Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv Contributors , Page vii Preface , Pages ix-x , FRED M. SNELL, ROBERT ROSEN Nicolas Rashevsky: 1899–1972 , Pages xi-xiv , ROBERT ROSEN Contents of Volume 1 , Page xv Living Aggregates of Nonliving Parts: A Generalized Statistical Mechanical Theory , Pages 1-22 , Karl Kornacker Theoretical Methods in Systematic and Evolutionary Studies , Pages 23-86 , G.F. Estabrook Waves, Pulses, and the Theory of Neural Masses , Pages 87-165 , Walter J. Freeman Design for Autonomous Chemical Growth under Different Environmental Constraints , Pages 167-211 , Otto E. Rössler Cooperative Processes in Biological Systems , Pages 213-302 , Narendra S. Goel Problems of Organization of Motor Systems , Pages 303-338 , Peter H. Greene AUTHOR INDEX , Pages 339-346 SUBJECT INDEX , Pages 347-350