(Page 1002b) Notes for: Implications for Everyday Systems | Fundamental Issues in Biology Tricks in [biological] evolution Among the tricks used are: sexual reproduction, ...

(Page 1002c) Notes for: Implications for Everyday Systems | Fundamental Issues in Biology Belief in [biological] optimality The notion that features of biological organisms ...

(Page 1126a) Notes for: The Principle of Computational Equivalence | The Content of the Principle Character of [general] principles [in science] Examples of principles that ...

(Page 0383) Fundamental Issues in Biology Biological systems are often cited as supreme examples of complexity in nature, and it is not uncommon for it to be assumed that ...

(Page 0422) two. And, again just like with leaves and shells, it seems likely that among the animals we see are ones that correspond to a fair fraction of the possible ...

(Page 0404) For although leaves typically expand significantly after they come out, the basic features of their shapes almost never seem to change. There is some evidence ...

(Page 0090) then it seems that no rule ever gives behavior that is much more complicated than in the picture above. And from this one might be led to conclude that sequential ...

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