Self-Organization in Biological Systems
April 20, 2011
- author |
- Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks
- year published |
- 2003
Amazon | The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns — phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries — a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and… read more