Book/The Origins of Order

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Kauffman, Stuart (1993). The Origins of Order: Self-organization and Selection in Evolution. local page: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195079517. 


Some background relevant to this book

This book should be read with Semi-tensor ideas in mind. The rationale can be justified in : Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks A Semi-tensor Product Approach[1].

University Press, London (1993) The following is the Table of Content

Conceptual Outline of Current Evolutionary Theory

Part I ADAPTATION ON THE EDGE OF CHAOS

The Structure of Rugged Fitness Landscapes

Biological Implications of Rugged Fitness Landscapes

The structure of Adaptive Landscapes Underlying Protein Evolution

Self-Organization and Adaptation in Complex Systems

The Dynamics ofCoevolving Systems

PART II THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF LIFE

The Origins of Life:A New View

The Origin of a Connected Metabolism

Hypercycles and Coding

Random Grammars:Models of Functional Integration and Transformation

PART III ORDER AND ONTOGENY

The Architecture of Genetic Regulatory Circuits and Its Evolution

Differentiation: The Dynamical Behaviors of Genetic Regulatory Networks

Selection for Cell Types

Morphology, Maps, and the Spatial Ordering of Integrated Tissues

Epilog

Bibliography

Index

References