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Biology, Complexity, & Nonlinear Dynamics Reading List

Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives -  Franco Orsucci, Nicoletta Sala

Cellular Automata And Complexity - Stephen Wolfram

Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology, and Complexity - John D. Barrow, Paul Davies, Charles L. Harper Jr

Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning - John D. Barrow, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen J. Freeland, Charles L. Harper Jr

Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H2O - Ruth M. Lynden-Bell, Simon Conway Morris, John D. Barrow, John L. Finney, Charles L. Harper Jr

Chaos – James Gleick

Universality in Chaos, Second Edition - Predrag Cvitanović

Geometry in Nature - Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen

An Eye for Fractals: A Graphic & Photographic Essay -  Michael McGuire

The Mathematics of Patterns, Symmetries, and Beauties in Nature: In Honor of John Adam -  Bourama Toni

Fractals in the Natural Sciences -  M. Fleischmann, D. J. Tildesley, R. C. Ball

Thinking In Patterns: Fractals And Related Phenomena In Nature -  Miroslav M Novak

The Beauty of Numbers in Nature: Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World - Ian Stewart

Nonlinear Dynamics and Quantum Chaos: An Introduction, Second Edition - Sandro Wimberger

Hamiltonian Systems: Chaos and Quantization – Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise - Manfred R. Schroder

A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe - Freeman Dyson

The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution - Stewart A. Kauffman

A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life - Stewart A. Kauffman

Evolution of Spontaneous Structures in Dissipative Continuous Systems -  Friedrich H. Busse, Stefan C. Müller

The Symphony of Entropy: Unveiling the Wisdom of Optimally Dissipative Configuration - David Guillot

The Threads of Evolution: Complexity, Information, Entropy, and Rhythm -  Guillermo Agudelo Murguía

Dynamics of Quasi-Stable Dissipative Systems -  Igor Chueshov

Dynamics And Bifurcation Of Patterns In Dissipative Systems -  Iuliana Oprea, Gerhard Dangelmayr

Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability - Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes

Nonlinear Dynamics: Exploration through Normal Forms - Peter B. Kahn, Yair Zarmi

Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos – Morris W. Hirsch, Stephen Smale, Robert L. Devaney

An Experimental Approach to Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos – Nicholas B. Tuffilaro, Tyler Abbott, Jeremiah Reilly

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos – Steven H. Strogatz

Evolution Above the Species Level -  Bernhard Rensch

Biophilosophical Implications of Inorganic and Organismic Evolution - Bernhard Rensch

God and the New Biology -  Arthur R. Peacocke

An Introduction to the Physical Chemistry of Biological Organization -  Arthur R. Peacocke

Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures: Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences - William C. Schieve, Peter M. Allen

Autopoiesis, Dissipative Structures, And Spontaneous Social Orders -  Milan Zeleny

Autopoiesis: A Theory of Living Organization - Milan Zeleny

The Self-Organizing Universe - Erich Jantsch

Design for Evolution: Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human Systems - Erich Jantsch

Complexity Science: The Study of Emergence -  Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Generative Complexity in a Complex Generative World: A Generative Revolution in the Making -  Ton Jörg

The Neutral Theory Molecular Evolution - Motoo Kimura

Quantitative Laws in Biological Chemistry - Svante Arrhenius

Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior: Part 1: Periodic Behavior - Ralph Abraham, Christopher Shaw

Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior, Part 2: Chaotic Behavior - Ralph Abraham, Christopher Shaw

Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior, Part 3: Global Behavior - Ralph Abraham, Christopher Shaw

Dynamics: the Geometry of Behavior, Part 4: Bifurcation Behavior - Ralph Abraham, Christopher Shaw

 

Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life: Lessons for Astrobiology – Muriel Gargaud, Hervé Martin, Purificación López-García, Thierry Montemerle, Robert Pascal

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution of Earth - Andrew H. Knoll

Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life – Anne Neubeck, Sean McMahon

Origins of Life, Second Edition - Freeman Dyson

Beginning of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis – Harold J. Morowitz

Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life – Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Stephan Thurner

The Biogenesis of Mitochondria: Transcriptional, Translational and Genetic Aspects – A. M. Kroon, C. Sassone

Molecules, Dynamics, and Life: An Introduction to Self–Organization of Matter – A. Babloyantz

Spirals and Vortices: In Culture, Nature, and Science - Kinko Tsuji, Stefan C. Muller

Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution – Karl J. Niklas, Stewart A. Newman

Morphogenesis, Environmental Stress and Reverse Evolution - Jean Guex, John S. Torday, William B. Miller Jr.

Mechanisms of Morphogenesis -  Jamie A. Davies

The Relevance of René Thom: The Morphological Dimension in Today’s Sciences -  Isabel Marcos, Clément Morier

Mathematical Models Of Morphogenesis - René Thom

Structural Stability And Morphogenesis - René Thom

The Origins of Life: Molecules and Natural Selection -  Leslie E. Orgel

The Origins of Life on the Earth -  Leslie E. Orgel, Stanley Miller

Theoretical Biology and Complexity: Three Essays on the Natural Philosophy of Complex Systems – Robert Rosen

What is Life? With Mind and Matter, and Autobiographical Sketches - Erwin Schrödinger

Biological Autonomy: A Philosophical and Theoretical Enquiry – Alvaro Moreno, Matteo Mossio

Laws, Language, and Life - Howard Hunt Pattee, Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

Hierarchy Theory: The Challenge of Complex Systems - Howard Hunt Pattee

The Physical Foundation of Biology: An Analytical Study - Walter M. Elsasser

Reflections on a Theory of Organisms: Holism in Biology - Walter M. Elsasser

Atom and Organism: A New Approach to Theoretical Biology - Walter M. Elsasser

Chief Abstractions of Biology - Walter M. Elsasser

 

Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig – Olivier Rieppel

Interpreting the Hierarchy of Nature: From Systematic Patterns to Evolutionary Process Theories – Olivier Rieppel, Lance Grande

What, if Anything, are Species? – Brent D. Mishler

Species: A History of the Idea – John S. Wilkins

Species Problems and Beyond: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Practice – John S. Wilkins, Frank E. Zachos, Igor Ya. Pavlinov

Species Concepts in Biology: Historical Development, Theoretical Foundations and Practical Relevance – Frank E. Zachos

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