A cybernetic view of biological growth : the Maia hypothesis /
Maia is the story of an idea, and its development into a working hypothesis, that provides a cybernetic interpretation of how growth is controlled. Growth at the lowest level is controlled by regulating the rate of growth. Access to the output of control mechanisms is provided by perturbing the grow...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Growth unlimited: blooms, swarms and plagues
- Self-regulating systems: from machines to humans
- The wealth of homeodynamic responses
- A cybernetic approach to growth analysis
- A control mechanism for Maia
- The three levels of adaptation
- Population growth and its control
- Hierarchy: a controlled harmony
- History of hormesis and links to homeopathy
- Maian mechanisms for hormesis and catch-up growth
- Cellular growth control and cancer
- Human overpopulation
- Our finite earth
- The Maia hypothesis and anagenesis.
