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