Introduction to complexity and complex systems
Title:
Introduction to complexity and complex systems
Author:
Northrop, Robert B.
ISBN:
9781439839010
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, c2011.
Physical Description:
xx, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction to complexity and complex systems -- Introduction to large linear systems -- Introduction to biochemical oscillators and nonlinear biochemical systems -- Modularity, redundancy, degeneracy, pleiotropy and robustness in complex biological systems -- The evolution of biological complexity; invertebrate immune systems -- Irreducible and specified complexity in living systems -- The complex adaptive and innate human immune systems -- Complexity in quasispecies : microRNAs -- Introduction to complexity in economic systems -- Complexity in quasispecies : micrornas -- Dealing with complexity.