Cybernetics and development.
Cybernetics and Development deals with the ways in which growing and developing biological systems control themselves during development. It is a preliminary attempt to apply some of the insights and techniques of cybernetics to the problem of understanding such development and its control. The book...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford,
Pergamon Press
[1966]
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| Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
| Series: | International series of monographs on pure and applied biology. Division, Zoology ;
v. 29. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Cybernetics and Development deals with the ways in which growing and developing biological systems control themselves during development. It is a preliminary attempt to apply some of the insights and techniques of cybernetics to the problem of understanding such development and its control. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of cybernetics and its methods. Separate chapters cover the use of cybernetics in the field of biological development; previous work in the area of cybernetics related to automata theory; and the application of information theory to development. Subsequent c. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780080114316 0080114318 1483155110 9781483155111 |