Elements of physical biology

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Title page Preface Lists Synopsis PART I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES CHAPTER I Regarding definitions CHAPTER II Evolution Defined: The History of a System in the Course of Irreversible Transformation CHAPTER III The Statistical Meaning of Irreversibility CHAPTER IV Evolution Conceived as a Redistribution CHAPTER V The Program of Physical Biology PART II. KINETICS CHAPTER VI The Fundamental Equations of the Kinetics of Evolving Systems. General Case CHAPTER VII Special Case: Single Dependent Variable CHAPTER VIII Special Cases: Two and Three Dependent Variables CHAPTER IX Analysis of the Growth Function CHAPTER X Further Analysis of the Growth Function PART III. STATICS CHAPTER XI General Principles of Equilibrium CHAPTER XII Chemical Equilibrium, as an Example of Evolution under a Known Law CHAPTER XIII Inter-species Equilibrium CHAPTER XIV Inter-species Equilibrium: Aquatic Life CHAPTER XV The Stage of the Life Drama CHAPTER XVI The Circulation of the Elements. The Water Cycle CHAPTER XVII The Carbon Dioxide Cycle CHAPTER XVIII The Nitrogen Cycle CHAPTER XIX The Phosphorus Cycle CHAPTER XX Cycles: Conclusion and Summary CHAPTER XXI Moving Equilibria CHAPTER XXII Displacement of Equilibrium CHAPTER XXIII The Parameters of State PART IV. DYNAMICS CHAPTER XXIV The Energy Transformers of Nature CHAPTER XXV The Relation of the Transformer to Available Sources CHAPTER XXVI The Correlating Apparatus CHAPTER XXVII Extension of the Sensuous World Picture CHAPTER XXVIII The Adjustors CHAPTER XXIX Consciousness CHAPTER XXX The Function of Consciousness CHAPTER XXXI The Origin of Consciousness in the Living Organism CHAPTER XXXII Energy Relations of Consciousness CHAPTER XXXIII Review of the Correlating Apparatus CHAPTER XXXIV Conclusions; Retrospect and Prospect Synoptic chart of physical biology