Chaos and Life - Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought : Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought

Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Prolog: The Dawn of Man? 1(2) Iteration and Sequence 3(20) The Crisis in Biology 23(19) The Origin of ``Species'' 42(13) Chaos and Dimensionality 55(17) Chaostability 72(25) The Geometry of Life 97(27) The Living Computer 124(26) Morphology and Evolution 150(22) Entropy, Information, and Randomness 172(30) The Effectiveness of Mathematics 202(19) Life and Conflict 221(15) The World as Iteration and Recursion 236(35) Notes 271(24) Index 295