The explosion of life forms : living beings and morphology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Chapouthier, Georges (Contributor), Maurel, Marie-Christine (Contributor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE Ltd ; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
Series:	Sciences, Biology, Xenobiology, Exobiology, Astrobiology, Origins of Life
Subjects:	Ecology. Evolution (Biology) Geomorphology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
1 Possible Traces and Clues of Early Life Forms
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Have things always been as they are today?
1.3. Fossil traces?
1.4. Geochemical elements confirming these recent results
1.5. Compartmentalization of resources and primary biomass
1.6. Rebuilding a living cell: a wide range of possibilities explored, from the mineral to the organic
1.7. Conclusion
1.8. Acknowledgements
1.9. References
2 The Nature of Life
2.1. Observations and assumptions
2.2. Descriptions and definitions
2.3. Exploration
2.4. Conclusion
2.5. References
3 From Form to Function
3.1. Form: a concept for knowledge
3.2. Basic structural elements: from the molecule to the cell
3.3. The weight of the physical setting
3.4. Mesoderm: base material for architect genes
3.5. Appendices and laws of mechanics
3.6. Appendicular movement on land
3.7. The legless
3.8. And the head
3.9. References
4 On Growth and Form: Context and Purpose
4.1. D'Arcy Thompson's program
4.2. Application of mathematics to morphometry
4.3. References
5 The Emergence of Form in the History of Epigenetics
5.1. Introduction
5.2. From epigenesis to epigenetics
5.3. The evolution of the epigenetic landscape
5.4. Modernizing the epigenetic landscape
5.5. From epigenetic landscape to chromosome conformation
5.6. Conclusion: from form to function
5.7. Acknowledgments
5.8. References
6 The Many Shapes of Microbial Detection of Kin and Kind
6.1. From Darwin's social-insects-puzzle to microbes
6.2. Handshakes of kinship or kindship in bacteria
6.3. The ameba world of clone discrimination/recognition
6.4. Social microbes and multicellularity
6.5. Conclusion
6.6. References.
7 Development and Evolution of Plant Forms
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Diversity of plant forms and associated functions
7.2.1. Anthropocentric view of plant forms
7.2.2. Plant forms perceived by pollinators
7.3. Origin and evolution of plant forms
7.3.1. Pattern formation during ontogenesis
7.3.2. Physical-mathematical considerations on plant morphogenesis
7.3.3. Implementation of forms during phylogenesis
7.4. Origin and evolution of plant forms
7.4.1. Usefulness for human societies
7.4.2. Usefulness for botanical classifiers
7.5. Conclusion
7.6. Acknowledgments
7.7. References
8 Forms of Memory
8.1. Introduction
8.2. The polymorphism of memory
8.3. Non-associative memories
8.3.1. Habituation and sensitization
8.3.2. Priming
8.3.3. Perceptual learning
8.4. Classical conditioning
8.4.1. Operational definition, rules and varieties of classical conditioning
8.4.2. Contemporary theory of classical conditioning
8.4.3. The importance of classical conditioning
8.5. Instrumental conditioning
8.5.1. Law of effect, stimulus-response (S-R) theory and habits
8.5.2. From S-R theory to cognitive theories
8.5.3. The two facets of instrumental conditioning
8.6. Procedural memory as a memory system
8.6.1. Habits: double functional dissociations in mammals
8.6.2. Human procedural memory and its cerebral supports
8.7. Declarative memory
8.7.1. Episodic and semantic memory: definitions, properties and relationships
8.7.2. Episodic memory in animals?
8.8. Short-term memory and working memory
8.8.1. General characteristics
8.8.2. Models
8.8.3. Short-term memory in animals
8.8.4. Cerebral substrates
8.9. Conclusion: organization and reconfiguration of the different forms of memory
8.10. References
9 The Construction of Sensory Universes.
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Chemoreception
9.2.1. Taste
9.2.2. Smell
9.3. Mechanoreception
9.3.1. Touch
9.3.2. Lateral lines
9.3.3. Hearing
9.4. Electromagnetoreception
9.4.1. Vision
9.4.2. Electroreception
9.4.3. Magnetoreception
9.4.4. Thermoreception
9.5. Information filtering
9.6. Conclusion
9.7. References
10 Emotional and Social Forms of Robots
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Communication with social and emotional robots
10.3. Human empathy for machines
10.4. Machine emotions
10.5. Conclusion: risks and benefits
10.6. References
11 When Medical Technology Mimics Living Forms
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Historical and epistemological perspective
11.2.1. A comparative history of medical technology
11.2.2. Epistemological perspective
11.2.3. A conceptual and theoretical framework: the mathematical theory of integrative physiology (MTIP) by Gilbert Chauvet
11.2.4. Forms of thinking or processing by machines
11.3. Simulation, biomimetics and bioprinting: a future for medical technology
11.4. References
12 From Living to Thinking: Mosaic Architecture
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Two main principles
12.3. Genes and cells
12.4. More complex anatomical mosaics
12.5. Epistemological rehabilitation of asexual reproduction
12.6. Social mosaics
12.7. Encephalic mosaics
12.8. Mosaics of thought
12.9. Man-made objects
12.10. Human and animal cultural traits
12.11. A universality of mosaics?
12.12. Conclusion: philosophical foundations
12.13. References
13 Converging Technologies or Paradoxes of Power
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Might, domination, power
13.3. Life, technique, power
13.4. Technological arrogance
13.5. Technological convergence and singularity
13.6. Innovation, research, invention
13.7. Conclusion.
13.8. References
List of Authors
Index
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