Ontic openness: An absolute necessity for all developmental processes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2908-2912

  Nielsen, Søren Nors ^a   Ulanowicz, Robert E ^b,c  

^a ECO Soft ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent possible; Ageing; Development; Elsasser; Entropy; Evolution; Ontic openness; Punctuated equilibria

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT POSSIBLE; AGEING; DEVELOPMENT; ELSASSER; EVOLUTION; ONTIC OPENNESS; PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIA;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; GENES; GEOMAGNETISM;

PUMPS;

AGING; BIOACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE; ENTROPY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOME; HETEROGENEITY; MAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 80051473204     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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