Evolution from cellular to social scales: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales, Geilo, Norway, 10-20 April 2007

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 mustbegin 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. Complexity science Adaptive systems Evolution of viruses and bacteria Evolution of sensory systems Evolutionary aspects in economy INDICE: Preface. Organizing committee and participants. Key note: The accuracy of molecular processes.- Experimental Evolution: Bugs and Bytes.- Evolutionary Dynamics.- Small RNA Control of Cell-to-Cell Communication.- Dynamical Genetic Regulation.- Translation Attenuation Mechanism in Unfolded Protein Response.- The Origin and Evolution of Viruses.- Fokker-Planck and Chapman-Kolmogorov equations for Ito processes with finite memory.- Evolution of FX markets via Globalization of Capital.- Evolutionary Dynamics of Genes and Environment in Cancer Development.- Aging as an Evolution-Facilitating Program and a Biochemical Approach to Switch it Off.- Evolution of Vision.- Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-8759-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 230
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés