Elsasser, Walter M., 1904- Atom and organism : : a new approach to theoretical biology / [electronic resource] / by Walter M. Elsasser.. — Princeton, N.J. : : Princeton University Press,, 1966.. — viii, 143 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140) and index.
1. Statement of basic principle -- 2. Statistics and the concept of immensity -- 3. The meaning of logical complexity.
Анотація: "The time-honored dualism of the mutually exclusive systems of thought, mechanistic biology on the one hand and vitalism on the other, expresses a pair of theoretical approaches which are both inadequate. We shall show how they can be replaced by an abstractly descriptive system of a different type that is far better adapted to the nature of biology"--Pref.