Ingolf Lamprecht & A. I. Zotin 
Thermodynamics and Regulation of Biological Processes [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — I. General Problems — Information and Cybernetic Aspects of Biological Thermodynamics — Some Relations of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Open Systems — The Statistical Background of the Clansdorff-Prigogine Criterion — Thermodynamic Analogies in Statistical Theory of Dynamic Systems — Stochastic Criterion in Dynamical Systems — Phases with Internal Degrees of Freedom and Their Heterogeneous Transformations — II. Information Theory — Towards a Dynamic Information Theory — On the Problem of the Valuability of Information — Relativistic Information and Biology — III. Thermodynamics of Information Processes — Entropy and Information The Supernatural Actions of Maxwell’s Demon — Thermodynamics and Information — Entropy of Information Theory and Thermodynamic Entropy — Optimal Thermodynamic Processes Under Chemical Reactions and Diffusion — IV. Control and Regulation in Biological Systems — Order and Disorder in Biological Control Systems — Simple Feedback System Used to Model Biomolecular Reactions in Drug-Receptor Populations — Towards a Stochastic Theory of Photoreception — Temperature Homeostasis and Principles of its Regulation in the Living Organism — V. Extremal Principles — An Extremal Principle for Biomass Diversity in Ecology — Optimal Principle and Temperature Conditions For the Existence of Animals — Optimal Heat Insulation of Homeotherms — Thermodynamics of Processes and the Evolution of Simple Biothermodynamic Populations — VI. Synergetics – The Problems of Seiforganisation — Self-Organisation Processes and Their Modelling — Stochastic Dissipative Structures — Symmetry Breaking Instabilities in Chemical Systems — Dynamic Model of the Origin of Order in Controlled Macrosystems — VII. The Problems of Evolution — Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Hypercycles — New Information in Evolution — State Spread and Evolution in Chemical Systems — Stochastic Models of Evolutionary Processes — Bioenergetic Trends of Evolutionary Progress of Organisms — VIII. Ontogenesis — Continuous Phase Transitions and Morphogenesis — Stability of Ontogenesis — Analysis of Homeorhesis in Ontogenetic, Population and Evolutionary Aspects — Thermodynamic Aspects of Plant Ontogenesis — Concluding Remarks — List of Contributors — References — Subject Index — Backmatter