Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Understanding the Origins and Evolution of Living Organisms. The Necessity of Convergence Between Old and New Paradigms
Anne Dambricourt Malassé
Part I The Modernity of Old Paradigms
2 Self-Organization Meets Evolution: Ernst Haeckel and Abiogenesis
Georgy S. Levit and Uwe Hossfeld
3 D'Arcy Thompson on Form and Intrinsic Purposiveness: Contributions to Epigenetic and Autopoietic Theory
Adam Scarfe
4 From Dissipative Structures to Biological Evolution: A Thermodynamic Perspective
Dilip Kondepudi, James Dixon and Benjamin De Bari
5 Evolutionary Transformations of Body Plan in Metazoa: Self-Organization, Topological Transformations, and Genomic-Morphogenetic CorrelationsValeria. V. Isaeva
6 The Challenge of Bergson, Instinct as Form
Stephen Earle Robbins
Part II Modernity of Self-Organization and Emerging Paradigms
7 Biological Evolution of Microorganisms
Werner Arber8 Self-Organization in Embryonic Development: Myth and Reality
Stuart Newman
9 The Morphoprocess and Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms of Metastable StructuresAndrei I. Granovitch
10 Mesological Plasticity as a New Model to Study Plant Evolution, Interactive Ecosystems and Self-organized Evolutionary Processes
Marc-Williams Debono
11 Thermal Worm Model to Describe Log-Periodicity in the Tree of Life.
Diogo Queiros-Conde, Jean Chaline and Ivan Brissaud
12 Sapiens and Cognition: The Optimal Vertical Nervous System. The Last Primate Threshold of Self-Organized and Self-Memorizing Increasing Complexity from Gametes to Embryo
Anne Dambricourt Malassé
13 Evolutionary CreativityEdgar Morin
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