Elements of physical biology

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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
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