Synopsis
1. Circular Logic.- 2. Phase Singularities (Screwy Results of Circular Logic).- 3. The Rules of the Ring.- 4. Ring Populations.- 5. Getting off the Ring.- 6. Attracting Cycles and Isochrons.- 7. Measuring the Trajectories of a Circadian Clock.- 8. Populations of Attractor Cycle Oscillators.- 9. Excitable Kinetics and Excitable Media.- 10. The Varieties of Phaseless Experience: In Which the Geometrical Orderliness of Rhythmic Organization Breaks Down in Diverse Ways.- 11. The Firefly Machine.- 12. Energy Metabolism in Cells.- 13. The Malonic Acid Reagent ("Sodium Geometrate").- 14. Electrical Rhythmicity and Excitability in Cell Membranes.- 15. The Aggregation of Slime Mold Amoebae.- 16. Growth and Regeneration.- 17. Arthropod Cuticle.- 18. Pattern Formation in the Fungi.- 19. Orcadian Rhythms in General.- 20. The Circadian Clocks of Insect Eclosion.- 21. The Flower of Kalanchoe.- 22. The Cell Mitotic Cycle.- 23. The Female Cycle.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.
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