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Complexity, chaos, and biological evolution. Proceedings of a NATO advanced research workshop, held August 6-10, 1990, in Hindsgavl, Denmark. (English) Zbl 0743.92002

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.]
With the concepts of ideas of complex systems theory it now appears that the biological sciences have acquired a set of tools which will allow us to describe the behavior, function and evolution of living systems in much more detail. As a step in this direction, small as it may be, this book reproduces a collection of papers which were delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer Dynamics and Biological Evolution which took place at Hindsgavl Conference Center near Middelfart, Denmark, August 6-10, 1990.
Attended by some 60 participants, this workshop succeeded as one of the relatively unusual events where clinically oriented medical doctors, experimental biologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians are able to find a common language and to communicate freely across conventional barriers.
The workshop offered lectures by leading experts in the fields of theoretical biology, morphogenesis, evolution, artificial life, hormonal regulation, bone remodeling, population dynamics, and chaos theory. In addition to the presentations given by the invited speakers, many of those attending the workshop also reported on their recent results within these and related areas.

MSC:

92B05 General biology and biomathematics
92-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to biology
92C30 Physiology (general)
92C15 Developmental biology, pattern formation
00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest
92C40 Biochemistry, molecular biology
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