Evolution, Development and Complexity: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems

by Georgi Yordanov Georgiev (editor)

Section 1- Universe.- Chapter 1- Cosmological Natural Selection and the Function of Life.- Chapter 2- Evolutionary A Universal Perspective.- Chapter 3- Life, the Universe, and almost Signs of Cosmic Design?.- Chapter 4- Universal Organized Complexity as an Intrinsic Value.- Chapter 5- Inductive Probabilities in Astrobiology and 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 A Free-energy Proposal.- Chapter 8- Action and Power Efficiency in 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 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.

486 pages, Paperback

Published June 28, 2019