Introduction: Self-organization as an actual theme

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1807, 2003, Pages 1049-1056

  Skår, John ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biological systems; Complexity; Logic of life; Mechanisms; Patterns; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0141923357     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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