Biogenesis Evolution Homeostasis

I. General Formal and Relational Aspects.- Systemogenesis as a Paradigm for Biogenesis.- Information Theory with Applications to Biogenesis and Evolution.- On the Origin of Information in Biological Systems and in Bioids (A).- On the Evolutionary Origin of Life and the Definition and Nature of Organism: Relational Redundancies (A).- II. Optimization and Evolution.- On the Dynamics and Trajectories of Evolution Processes.- The Limits on Optimization in Evolution.- III. Control and Homeostasis.- Physical Problems of the Origin of Natural Controls.- The Significance of Cooperative Interactions in Biochemical Control Systems (A).- Organization of Glycolysis (A).- Cell Models and the Homeostasis Problem (A).- Contribution to a Mathematical Theory of Synergic Systems.- IV. Oscillation, Excitability and Evolution.- The Role of Precursors in Stimulating Oscillations in Autocatalytic Diffusion Coupled Systems.- Oscillatory Behavior of Enzymic Activities: A New Type of Metabolic Control System (A).- The Existence of Synchronous States in Populations of Oscillators.- Reactions of Model-Oscillations to External Stimuli Depending on the Type of Oscillation (A).- Abiogenic Aspects of Biological Excitability. A General Theory for Evolution.- V. Statistics and Thermodynamics.- Thermodynamic and Statistical Theory of Life: An Outline.- Thermodynamic Potentials and Evolution towards the Stationary State in Open Systems of Far-from-Equilibrium Chemical Reactions: The Affinity Squared Minimum Function (A).- Thermodynamic Stability and Spatio-Temporal Structures in Chemical Systems (A).- Optimal Adaptation of the Metabolic Processes in the Cell (A).- VI. Metabolic Evolution.- On the Generation of Metabolic Novelties in Evolution.- Circular Nucleic Acids in Evolution (A).- VII. Time and Evolution.- Physiological Time and Its Evolution.- Timeless Order.- VIII. Learning, Memory and Evolution.- The Ontogenesis of Purposive Activity.- Some General Problems of Memory.- Role of Glycoproteins in Neural Ontogenesis, Membrane Phenomena, and Memory (A).- On Controlled and Totally Neural-Replies Generated Concepts for Biology and Functional Brain Theory.- Remarks on Mathematical Brain Models.- IX. Conclusion.- How to Conceive of Biogenesis (A Reflection Instead of a Summary).- (A): Abstract.