Books by "James W. Bee"
8 books found
Crested Wheatgrass as Compared with Bromegrass, Slender Wheatgrass, and Other Hay and Pasture Crops for the Northern Great Plains
by Ralph U. Cotter, C. A. Magoon, Charles Brooks, Charles Faye Sarle, Charles Otis Johnston, Curtis Paul Clausen, Elmer Ottis Wooton, Floyd Franklin Smith, Fred W. Miller, Harvey Leroy Westover, Howard E. Middleton, Irvin Cecil Brown, Irvine Theodore Haig, James Thorp, Lester Henry Reineke, Lyle Thomas Alexander, Millard Peck, Orator Fuller Cook, Ronald Floyd Luxford, Samuel Augustus Jones, V. L. Wildermuth, Walter Chapin Holmes, William Hobson Rowe, William John Nolan, Willis James Nolan, Bernard Frank, Charles W. Culpepper, Clarence Sheldon Slater, Donald Bruce, Edwin Butterworth Mains, Elmer Valentine Walter, Horace Greeley Byers, John Thomas Scanlan, Johnson Thatcher Sarvis, Lorraine Joseph Markwardt, Paul A. Berry, R. R. Graves, Theodore Roosevelt Gardner, Anis Rae Peterson, Kaku Sato, Leroy Moomaw, Paul Axel Clarence Eke, George W. Morgan, John Carl Thysell, M. A. Bell
1932
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
by Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks, James Sneyd, Guy Theraulaz, Eric Bonabeau
2020 · Princeton University Press
The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns--phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries--a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and other enthusiasts, introduces readers to the basic concepts and tools for studying self-organization and then examines numerous examples of self-organization in the natural world. Self-organization refers to diverse pattern formation processes in the physical and biological world, from sand grains assembling into rippled dunes to cells combining to create highly structured tissues to individual insects working to create sophisticated societies. What these diverse systems hold in common is the proximate means by which they acquire order and structure. In self-organizing systems, pattern at the global level emerges solely from interactions among lower-level components. Remarkably, even very complex structures result from the iteration of surprisingly simple behaviors performed by individuals relying on only local information. This striking conclusion suggests important lines of inquiry: To what degree is environmental rather than individual complexity responsible for group complexity? To what extent have widely differing organisms adopted similar, convergent strategies of pattern formation? How, specifically, has natural selection determined the rules governing interactions within biological systems? Broad in scope, thorough yet accessible, this book is a self-contained introduction to self-organization and complexity in biology--a field of study at the forefront of life sciences research.