The Geometry of Biological Time

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Circular Logic....Pages 4-39
Phase Singularities (Screwy Results of Circular Logic)....Pages 40-73
The Rules of the Ring....Pages 74-94
Ring Populations....Pages 95-130
Getting off the Ring....Pages 131-144
Attracting Cycles and Isochrons....Pages 145-175
Measuring the Trajectories of a Circadian Clock....Pages 176-204
Populations of Attractor Cycle Oscillators....Pages 205-230
Excitable Kinetics and Excitable Media....Pages 231-257
The Varieties of Phaseless Experience: In which the Geometrical Orderliness of Rhythmic Organization Breaks Down in Diverse Ways....Pages 258-276
The Firefly Machine....Pages 277-284
Energy Metabolism in Cells....Pages 285-299
The Malonic Acid Reagent (“Sodium Geometrate”)....Pages 300-314
Electrical Rhythmicity and Excitability in Cell Membranes....Pages 315-336
The Aggregation of Slime Mold Amoebae....Pages 337-344
Growth and Regeneration....Pages 345-360
Arthropod Cuticle....Pages 361-366
Pattern Formation in the Fungi....Pages 367-374
Circadian Rhythms in General....Pages 375-400
The Circadian Clocks of Insect Eclosion....Pages 401-426
The Flower of Kalanchoe ....Pages 427-434
The Cell Mitotic Cycle....Pages 435-449
The Female Cycle....Pages 450-458
Back Matter....Pages 459-530