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