Ingolf Lamprecht & A. I. Zotin 
Thermodynamics and Pattern Formation in Biology [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — General Problems — Some Basic Principles for the Formation of Structure in Nonlinear Systems of Thermodynamic Kind — Topologically Stable Patterns in Condensed Matter — New Types of Order and Stochastic Regimes in Nonlinear Media — Chirality Wave Propagation and the First Evolutionary Catastrophe — Nonlinear Bioenergetics — Selection Between Aging Species — Pattern Formation in Chemical and Biochemical Systems — Pattern Formation and Wave Propagation in Chemical Systems — Spatial Ordering Processes in Chemical Reactions — Evolution of Populations of Biothermodynamic Systems Including Birth and Death-Processes — Monitoring Oscillating Chemical Reactions: The Rate of Heat Production and the Simultaneous Measurement of Other Physical Signals — Rate Limiting Steps in Oscillating Plant Glycolysis: Experimental Evidence for Control Sites Additional to Phosphofructokinase — Dynamic Structures in the Fructose-6-Phosphate/Fructose’ 1, 6-Bisphosphatase Cycle — Pattern Formation in Biological Systems — Morphogenesis of Behaviour and Information Compression in Biological Systems — Model of Pattern Generation on Plants, Based on the Principles of Minimal Entropy Production — Structures in Models of Morphogenesis — Self-Organisation of Biological Morphogenesis: General Approaches and Topo-Geometrical Models — Topological and Thermodynamic Structures of Morphogenesis — Fractal Shapes of Cell Membranes and Pattern Formation by Dichotomous Branching Processes — Autowave Mechanochemical Model for Physarum Shuttle Streaming — Statistical Geometry of Tissues — Surface Changes and Shape Formation During Organism Growth — List of Contributors — References — Subject Index — Backmatter