Table of Contents

I. The Origin of Life
1: The molecular basis of life
2: Molecular evolution and quasi-species
3: Stochastic processes
4: A spin glass model of the origin of life
5: The origin of the genetic code
6: Hypercycles
7: Artificial life
II. The Immune System
8: The immune system
9: Bell's model
10: Adaptive walks
11: Maturation of the immune response
12: The symmetric immune network model
13: A shape space network model
14: AIDS
III. The Brain
15: Neurons and synapses
16: Memory
17: The McCulloch-Pitts neural net
18: Perceptrons
19: Connectionism
20: Attractor neural networks
21: Unsupervised learning
22: Evolutionary learning
A. Differential equations
C. Computer simulation
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dr G. W. Rowe, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN

Reviews

`Anyone who is interested in the theoretical models of complicated living systems should have this in his or her library.' Bulletin of Mathematical Biology