Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology: From Theory to Applied Cases in the Tree of Life Book 5 (Hardcover)

Table of Contents 1 Introduction: Understanding the Origins and Evolution of Living Organisms. The Necessity of Convergence Between Old and New Paradigms Anne Dambricourt Malassé Part I The Modernity of Old Paradigms 2 Self-Organization Meets Evolution: Ernst Haeckel and Abiogenesis Georgy S. Levit and Uwe Hossfeld 3 D Arcy Thompson on Form and Intrinsic Purposiveness: Contributions to Epigenetic and Autopoietic Theory Adam Scarfe 4 From Dissipative Structures to Biological Evolution: A Thermodynamic Perspective Dilip Kondepudi James Dixon and Benjamin De Bari 5 Evolutionary Transformations of Body Plan in Metazoa: Self-Organization Topological Transformations and Genomic-Morphogenetic Correlations Valeria. V. Isaeva 6 The Challenge of Bergson Instinct as Form Stephen Earle Robbins Part II Modernity of Self-Organization and Emerging Paradigms 7 Biological Evolution of Microorganisms Werner Arber 8 Self-Organization in Embryonic Development: Myth and Reality Stuart Newman 9 The Morphoprocess and Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms of Metastable Structures Andrei I. Granovitch 10 Mesological Plasticity as a New Model to Study Plant Evolution Interactive Ecosystems and Self-organized Evolutionary Processes Marc-Williams Debono 11 Thermal Worm Model to Describe Log-Periodicity in the Tree of Life. Diogo Queiros-Conde Jean Chaline and Ivan Brissaud 12 Sapiens and Cognition: The Optimal Vertical Nervous System. The Last Primate Threshold of Self-Organized and Self-Memorizing Increasing Complexity from Gametes to Embryo Anne Dambricourt Malassé 13 Evolutionary Creativity Edgar Morin