Figures from "Towards a Theoretical Biology", Volume 1 (Edinburgh University Press and Chicago Aldine, 1968), 1968
Item
Identifier: Coll-41/4/20
Scope and Contents
Contains:
- Figures 1-3 for 'An approach to a blueprint of a primitive organism' by A.G Cairns-Smith;
- Fig 1 from 'A note on evolution and changes in the quantitiy of genetic information' by Waddington and R.C Lewontin;
- Fig 2 for 'Does evolution depend on random search?' by Waddington;
- Fig 1 from 'The counting problem' by J. Maynard Smith;
- Figs 1 and 2 from 'The French flag problem' by Lewis Wolpert;
- Figs 1 and 2 from 'Tolerance spaces and the brain' by E.C Zeeman and O.P Buneman;
- Figures 1-5 for ''Boxes' as a model pattern-formation' by Donald Michie and R.A Chambers.
Dates
- Creation: 1968
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Biographical / Historical
Towards a Theoretical Biology Volume 1 was edited by Waddington.
Extent
1 folder
Physical Location
CLX-A-1027
Subject
- Buneman, O. Peter, fl 1963-: (mathematician and computer scientist) (Person)
- Cairns-Smith, Alexander Graham, b.1931 (organic chemist and molecular biologist ) (Person)
- Chambers, R.A, fl 1968-: (scientist) (Person)
- Lewontin, Richard Charles 'Dick', 1929-: (evolutionary biologist and geneticist) (Person)
- Maynard Smith, John, 1920-2004 (British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist) (Person)
- Michie, Donald, 1923-2007 (artificial intelligence researcher) (Person)
- Wolpert, Lewis, 1929-: (developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster) (Person)
- Zeeman, Erik Christopher, Sir, 1925-: (mathematician) (Person)
Creator
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk