Epistemology

• Logic
  14 November 2005

  Logic is the science of demonstration ; it lays down the rules for making propositions and constructing proofs. Logic is really the core of philosophy.

• teleology
  13 November 2005

  WKP
  The study of ends or final causes; the explanation of phenomena by reference to goals or purposes.
  See also
  finalism
  aristotelism in biology ( Aristotle )

• theory of formative causation
  13 November 2005

  The hypothesis that organisms or morphic units at all levels of complexity are organized by morphic fields, which are themselves influenced and stabilized by morphic resonance from all previous similar morphic units.

• symbiosis
  13 November 2005

  (Greek symbioun, "to live together"),

• sociobiology
  13 November 2005

  The biological study of social behavior in animals, based upon the understanding that social behaviors can be genetically encoded and evolve through the evolutionary process of natural selection.
  References
  The sociobiology of molecular systems. Foster KR. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Mar;12(3):193-203. PMID: #21301472#

• selfish gene theory
  13 November 2005

  Darwin’s theory of natural selection applied at the genetic level, which proposes that the unit of selection in evolution is not the species or the organism, but the gene.
  See also
  The Selfish Gene. by Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (October 25, 1990). ISBN: 0192860925
  The Selfish Gene. by Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press, USA; 3rd edition (March 31, 2006). ISBN: 0199291152
  Genes in Conflict : The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements (Hardcover). by (...)

• non-linear dynamics
  13 November 2005

  The study of chaotic processes.

• information theory
  13 November 2005

  WP1 WP2
  Definition: Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science involving the quantification of information. It can also be seen as a branch of cybernetics that attempts to define the amount of information required to control a process of given complexity.
  Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and (...)

• information in biology
  13 November 2005

  Definition: Non-predictable patterns that carry a message.

• fractal
  13 November 2005

  fractals

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