Inhalt

I Introduction.- Introductory Remarks.- II Evolution.- Ursprung und Evolution des Lebens auf molekularer Ebene.- III Coherence in Biology.- The Crystallization and Selection of Dynamical Order in the Evolution of Metazoan Gene Regulation.- The Synergetics of Actin-Myosin in Active Streaming and Muscle Contraction.- IV Instabilities and Pattern Formation in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.- Pattern Formation in Magnetic Fluids.- Thermoelastic Instabilities in Metals.- Spatial Chemical Structures, Chemical Waves. A Review.- Spontaneous Biological Pattern Formation in the Three Dimensional Sphere. Prepatterns in Mitosis and Cytokinesis.- Generation of Projections in the Developing and Regenerating Nervous System.- V Order and Chaos in Quantum Electronics and Fluids.- Optical Bistability, Self-Pulsing and Higher Order Bifurcations.- Benard Convection and Laser with Saturable Absorber. Oscillations and Chaos.- Bistability and Chaos in NMR Systems.- The Onset of Turbulence in the Wake of an Ion.- VI Order in Chaos.- Diversity and Universality. Spectral Structure of Discrete Time Evolution.- Onset of Chaos in Fluid Dynamics.- Transition to Chaos for Maps with Positive Schwarzian Derivative.- Scaling Properties of Discrete Dynamical Systems.- Phase Transitions in the Homoclinic Regime of Area Preserving Diffeomorphisms.- Noise Scaling of Symbolic Dynamics Entropies.- Dimension, Fractal Measures, and Chaotic Dynamics.- VII Chaos in Quantum Systems.- Cooperative and Chaotic Effects in a Hamiltonian Model of the Free-Electron Laser.- Chaos in Quantum Mechanics.- VIII Emergence of Order or Chaos in Complex Systems.- Criticality and the Emergence of Structure.- Strange Stability in Hierarchically Coupled Neuropsychobiological Systems.- List of Contributors.