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Lectures in Theoretical Biology
Edited by Kalevi Kull & Toomas Tiivel
Valgus, Tallinn, 1988. 180 p.

CONTENTS


K. Kull, T. Tiivel - Steps in a theoretical biology (11-14)

WAYS
S.V. Meyen - On the structure of theoretical biology (15-21)
R. Rosen - Constraints and the origin of life (22-26)
V.V. Nalimov - Geometrization of fundamental biological concepts (27-33)

GROUNDS
V.J. Militarjov - Categories and principles of the natural-scientific theory of classification (34-44)
J. Lotman - Natural environment and information (45-47)
A. Lotman - On axiomatic method in ethology (48-54)

MECHANISMS
L.V. Beloussov - The problem of biological morphogenesis: general approaches and mechano-geometrical models (55-64)
J.V. Chaikovsky - To the evolutionary thermodynamics (65-72)
K. Kull - The origin of species: a new view (73-77)

METHODS
I. Puura - Morphometric analysis of infraspecific variability in palaeontology: concepts and methods (78-83)
V.A. Kordyum - Information channels of pro- and eukaryotes: comparative analysis (84-101)
T. Tiivel - Adaptation to endocytobiosis in the evolution of cells (102-112)
V.F. Mashansky, A.L. Drozdov - The principle of conservatism at the level of cellular ultrastructures and the problem of the appearance of life on Earth (113-120)

PRINCIPLES
A.P. Levich - What are the possible theoretical principles in the ecology of communities? (121-128)
H. Tooming - Principle of maximum plant productivity (129-138)

REFLECTIONS
H. Kallak - On systemic approach in organic evolution (139-146)
M. Viikmaa - The main forms and levels of biological organization (147-151)
T. Sutt - The conception of universal evolutionism and the anthropic principle (152-158)

VALUES
S.V. Chebanov - Theoretical biology in biocentrism (159-168)
J.A. Schreider - On socio-humanitarian problems of biological knowledge (169-176)

CONSTRAINTS
In memoriam S.V. Meyen (177-180)



Lectures in Theoretical Biology: The Second Stage

Edited by Kalevi Kull & Toomas Tiivel
(Ser. Academia, vol. 2), Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, 1993. 257 p.

CONTENTS

K. Kull, T. Tiivel - Renewal of theoretical biology (7-9)

PRINCIPLES
Erkki Haukioja - What is the basic question in biology? (13-25)
Karl Y.H. Lagerspetz - Bridge principles in biology: reduction and construction in the study of biological systems (26-32)
Alexander Levich - Towards a dynamic theory (on the centenary of E. Bauer) (33-51)
Kalevi Kull - Semiotic paradigm in theoretical biology (52-62)

EVOLUTION
Toomas Tiivel - Is life monophyletic? (65-84)
Werner Schwemmler - Search for a unified theory of evolution: the contribution from symbiosis studies (85-104)
Petter Portin - A dialectical approach to the levels of selection (105-109)
Tõnu Möls - Statistical estimation of molecular phylogenetic trees (110-121)
Toomas Tammaru - Wilhelm Petersen as a biologist-theoretician (122-127)

ECOLOGY
Grenville Hugh Walter - The concept of interaction in ecological theory (131-148)
Thure von Uexküll - Ökologie im Licht der Lehre Jakob von Uexküll's (149-152)
Martin Zobel - Theories concerning the coexistence of plant species (153-168)

ORGANISMS
Wolfgang Friedrich Gutmann - Organismic machines: the hydraulic principle and the evolution of living constructions (171-187)
Jay E. Mittenthal, Lev V. Beloussov - A biomechanical model for gastrulation of Xenopus laevis (189-201)
Lev V. Beloussov - Experimental evidence for the "hyperrestoration rule" and some standard morphomechanical situations (202-216)

CULTURE
Sergei V. Chebanov - Biology and humanitarian culture: the problem of interpretation in bio-hermeneutics and in the hermeneutics of biology (219-248)
Arnold Keyserling - Return of the philosophy of nature (249-251)

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