Biology

History & Philosophy

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Resources

Programmable Artificial Life.

• [ y ] 07-10-2023 “Isotropic Neural Cellular Automata”.

• [ y ] 12-23-2022 “Particle Lenia”.

Tom Mohr

• [ y ] 04-16-2023 “The code behind Particle Life”.

• [ y ] 12-08-2022 “How Particle Life emerges from simplicity”.

More

• [ y ] 05-28-2023 Birdbrain. “Lenia - Artificial Life from Algorithms”.

• [ y ] 09-21-2024 Closer to Truth. “Alan Love - Philosophy of Genes & Biology”.

• MIT Open Courseware’s Systems Biology Fall 2014

• “The math of Living Things” article

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Texts

• 2019 Alon, Uri. An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits. 2e. CRC Press. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9780429283321/introduction-systems-biology-uri-alon.

• 1997 Duchesneau, François. Philosophie de la biologie. Presses universitaires de France.

• 2012 Glaser, Roland. Biophysics: An Introduction. Springer.

• 2002 Keller, Evelyn Fox. Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. Harvard Universtiy Press.

• 2000 Keller, Evelyn Fox. The Century of the Gene. Harvard University Press.

• 2015 Kuldell, Natalie et al. BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab. O’Reilly. Home.

• 2020 Nelson, Philip. Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life. https://www.physics.upenn.edu/biophys/BPse/index.html.

• 2017 Nelson, Philip. From Photon to Neuron: Light, Imaging, Vision. Princeton University Press. https://www.physics.upenn.edu/biophys/PtN/index.html.

• 2014 Nelson, Philip. Physical Models of Living Systems. https://www.physics.upenn.edu/biophys/PMLS/index.html.

• ???? Parke, William C. Biophysics: A Student’s Guide to the Physics of the Life Sciences and Medicine. Springer.

• 1952 Turing, Alan. “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis”. https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing.pdf.

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Figures

• [ w ] 1809-1882 Darwin, Charles

• [ w ] 1941----- Dawkins, Richard

• [ w ] 1965----- Godfrey-Smith, Peter

• [ w ] 1941-2002 Gould, Stephen Jay

• [ w ] 1950-2026 Grosholz, Emily Rolfe

• [ w ] 1935-2010 Hull, David

• [ w ] 1887-1975 Huxley, Julian

• [ w ] 1936----- Keller, Evelyn Fox

• [ w ] 1912-1954 Turing, Alan

• [ w ] 1929-2021 Wilson, Edward

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Terms

• [ w ] Abiogenesis

• [ w ] Allopoiesis

• [ w ] Artificial Life

• [ w ] Autopoiesis

• [ w ] Biochemsitry

• [ w ] Biocybernetics

• [ w ] Bioinformatics

• [ w ] Biological Organization

• [ w ] Biological Structuralism

• [ w ] Biomimetics

• [ w ] Bionics

• [ w ] Biosemiotics

• [ w ] Biosphere

• [ w ] Biotechnology

• [ w ] Cellular Senescence

• [ w ] Chemoton

• [ w ] Collective Intelligence

• [ w ] Complex System

• [ w ] DNA Computing

• [ w ] Élan Vital

• [ w ] Emergence

• [ w ] Feedback

• [ w ] Gaia Hypothesis

• [ w ] Gene Ontology

• [ w ] Holobiont

• [ w ] Hologenome Theory of Evolution

• [ w ] Homeostasis

• [ w ] Lotka-Volterra Equations

• [ w ] Mathematical Biology

• [ w ] Molecular Biology

• [ w ] Morphogenesis

• [ w ] Negligible Senescence

• [ w ] Organismic Computing

• [ w ] Patterns in Nature

• [ w ] Philosophy of Biology [ SEP ]

• [ w ] Quorum Sensing

• [ w ] Reaction-Diffusion

• [ w ] Senescence

• [ w ] Stigmergy

• [ w ] Superorganism

• [ w ] Symmetry in Biology

• [ w ] Synergy

• [ w ] Systems Biology

• [ w ] Systems Theory

• [ w ] Swarm Intelligence

• [ w ] Tensegrity

• [ w ] Turing Pattern

• [ w ] Vitalism

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