Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Systems: From Dissipative Structures to Order Through Fluctuations

by Ilya Prigogine and Gregoire Nicolis

Membranes, Dissipative Structures, and Evolution Edited by G. Nicolis & R. Lefever Focuses on the problem of the emergence/maintenance of biological order at successively higher levels of complexity. Covers the spatiotemporal organization of simple biochemical networks; the formation of pluricellular or macromolecular assemblies; the evolution of these structures; and the functions of specific biological structures. Volume 29 in Advances in Chemical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471024015
• ISBN13: 9780471024019
• Release Date: May 1977
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.