Ebook: Frontiers in Mathematical Biology

Volume 100, which is the final volume of the LNBM series serves to commemorate the acievements in two decades of this influential collection of books in mathematical biology. The contributions, by the leading mathematical biologists, survey the state of the art in the subject, and offer speculative, philosophical and critical analyses of the key issues confronting the field. The papers address fundamental issues in cell and molecular biology, organismal biology, evolutionary biology, population ecology, community and ecosystem ecology, and applied biology, plus the explicit and implicit mathematical challenges. Cross-cuttting issues involve the problem of variation among units in nonlinear systems, and the related problems of the interactions among phenomena across scales of space, time and organizational complexity.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Genomes, Maps and Sequences....Pages 2-27
Cell Protrusions....Pages 28-52
Cell Motion and Orientation....Pages 53-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-101
Pattern Formation in Tissue Interaction Models....Pages 103-103
Toward Artificial Competence....Pages 104-116
Norbert Wiener’s Brain Waves....Pages 117-121
Puzzles about Excitable Media and Sudden Death....Pages 122-138
Immune Networks and Immune Responses....Pages 139-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-172
Evolution of Gene Families: A Clue to Some Problems of Neo-Darwinism....Pages 173-173
The Changing Role of Population Genetics Theory....Pages 174-185
Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Recombination....Pages 186-197
The Morphometric Synthesis: A Brief Intellectual History....Pages 198-211
Behavioral Ecology, Epidemiology and Population Genetics: The Undiscovered Country....Pages 212-237
Front Matter....Pages 238-251
Stochastic Demography and Life Histories....Pages 253-253
On the Reciprocal Relationship Between Life Histories and Population Dynamics....Pages 254-262
Structured Population Dynamics....Pages 263-279
Modelling Social Animal Aggregations....Pages 280-295
Spatial Chaos and its Role in Ecology and Evolution....Pages 296-325
Front Matter....Pages 326-344
Speculations on the Future of Food Webs....Pages 345-345
Front Matter....Pages 346-350
Lorenzo Camerano’s Contribution to Early Food Web Theory....Pages 345-345
On the Equilibrium of Living Beings by Means of Reciprocal Destruction....Pages 351-359
Frontiers in Ecosystem Science....Pages 360-380
Individual-Oriented Approaches to Modeling Ecological Populations and Communities....Pages 381-389
A Metaphysiological Approach to Modeling Ecological Populations and Communities....Pages 390-410
The Trophodynamics of Whole Ecological Communities....Pages 411-442
Modeling Contact Structures in Biology....Pages 443-453
Front Matter....Pages 454-491
Conservation and Spatial Structure: Theoretical Approaches....Pages 493-493
A Thousand and One Epidemic Models....Pages 494-503
Uncertainty and Fisheries Management....Pages 504-515
Front Matter....Pages 516-528
Health Information in Developing Countries....Pages 529-547
What Everyone Should Know About the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction....Pages 549-549
Avoiding Chaos....Pages 550-568
Model Building as an Inverse Problem in Biomathematics....Pages 569-587
Some Remarks on Estimation Techniques for Size-Structured Population Models....Pages 588-599
Back Matter....Pages 600-608
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