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The Equations Of Life

How Physics Shapes Evolution


  • p001 Ch01 Life's Silent Commander



  • p019 Ch02 Organizing the Multitudes


  • p024 active matter physics, Tamás Vicsek

  • p026 formula for probability of ant choosing a pheromone trail marked by a prior ant or ants, not usable without examples and numbers
  • p027 formulas obscured when many ants swarm towards multiple goals
  • p028 self-organizing behavior, not supervised but seeming so
  • p034 birds save energy by flying in formation and coordinating wing beats, minimizing downwash effects
  • p035 18yo Cockell in the Canadian north, banding birds caught in nets, then released
    • different ducks behaved differently, unique individual "personalities"
  • p035 Physics trumps individuality
  • p036 cellular cytoskeleton proteins self-organize
  • p037 kinesin (anterograde) and myosin (retrograde) motor molecules crawl along polar tubulin filaments


  • p039 Ch03 The Physics of the Ladybug


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  • p059 Ch04 All Creatures Great and Small


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  • p083 Ch05 Bundles of Life



  • p105 Ch06 The Edge of Life


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  • p125 Ch07 The Code of Life


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  • p145 Ch08 Of Sandwiches and Sulfur


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  • p167 Ch09 Water, the Liquid of Life


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  • p195 Ch10 The Atoms Of Life


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  • p217 Ch11 Universal Biology


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  • p239 Ch12 The Laws of Life: Evolution and Physics Unified


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  • p259 Acknowledgements


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  • p263 Notes



  • p325 Index



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