There is an ownership signature on the front end paper and again on the half title page, else the book appears unread. xi 322. "Signs of Life applies complexity to the whole of biology-from molecules to Gaia-and sets a revolutionary new agenda for complexity theory, evolution, and development. Signs of Life is an entirely new approach to the problems of understanding living systems. It applies the mathematics of order and disorder, of entropy, chance, and randomness, of chaos and nonlinear dynamics to the various mysteries of the living world at all levels. Less a set of answers than a guide to thinking about living systems, this book will help set the agenda for biology in the coming century." (publisher's blurb) CONTENTS: Nonlinearity, chaos, and emergence Order, complexity, disorder Genetic networks, cell differentiation, and development Physiology on the edge of chaos Brain dynamics Ants, brains, and chaos The Baroque of nature Life on the edge of catastrophe Evolution and extinction Fractal cities and market crashes.