A Cybernetic View of Biological Growth : The Maia Hypothesis (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. Maia - the argument in outline; 2. Growth unlimited - growth as a biological explosion; 3. Self-regulating systems - from machine to man; 4. The wealth of homeodynamic responses; 5. A cybernetic approach to growth analysis; 6. A control mechanism for Maia; 7. The three-fold way of adaptation; 8. Population growth and its control; 9. Hierarchy - a controlled harmony; 10. The historical origins of hormesis; 11. Maian mechanisms for hormesis and catch-up growth; 12. Cellular growth control and cancer; 13. Overpopulation; 14. Our finite Earth; 15. The Maia hypothesis and anagenesis; Glossary; References; Index.