The Equations Of Life
How Physics Shapes Evolution
- Multco Hillsdale . 576.801 C6661e . 2018
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p001 Ch01 Life's Silent Commander
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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
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- 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
p059 Ch04 All Creatures Great and Small
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p083 Ch05 Bundles of Life
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p092 np285 Barve 2014: Historical contingency and the gradual evolution of metabolic properties in central carbon and genome-scale metabolisms
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p095 np287 Persat 2014: The curved shape of Caulobacter crescentus enhances surface colonization in flow
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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