Adaptability

Adaptability.- 6.7. Physiological Tendencies.- 6.8. Upper Bound of Adaptability.- 6.9. Self-Consistency of Hierarchical Adaptability Theory.- 6.10. Segregation of Genotype and Phenotype.- 6.11. Operational Definition of Adaptability.- References.- 7. The Meaning of Efficiency.- 7.1. The Connection between Efficiency and Fitness.- 7.2. Thermodynamic Parameters of Efficiency.- 7.3. Fitness and Efficiency in the Light of Thermodynamics.- 7.4. Reformulating Statements about Efficiency.- 7.5. Biomass and Turnover in the Context of Efficiency.- 7.6. Evolution of Efficiency.- References.- 8. The Connection between Adaptability and Dynamics.- 8.1. Autonomy, Predictability, and the Bath of Unrepresented Adaptabilities.- 8.2. Biology of Stability, Instability, and Bifurcation.- 8.3. Interpretation of a Classical Model and Significance of Chaos.- 8.4. H(??) versus ??.- References.- 9. The Connection between Adaptability and Reliability.- 9.1. Embedded Communication Network and the In-Principle Solution.- 9.2. Essentials of the Proof.- 9.3. More General Situations and Qualifying Comments.- 9.4. Biochemical Proofreading.- 9.5. Interdependence of Reliability and Adaptability.- References.- 10. Adaptability Theory Analysis of the Genotype-Phenotype Relationship.- 10.1. The Mutation-Absorption Paradigm.- 10.2. Formalization of the Mutation-Absorption Model.- 10.3. The Bootstrap Principle of Evolutionary Adaptability.- 10.4. Issue of Neutralism and Significance of the Magnitudes.- 10.5. Adaptability of the Adaptive Landscape.- 10.6. Extension to Multigene Systems.- 10.7. Bootstrapping of the Cyclic Nucleotide System.- 10.8. The Buffer Structure Principle of Phenotypic Organization.- 10.9. Bootstrapping Is Possible Only in Nondecomposable Systems.- 10.10. Relation to Other Discussions of Evolution and Development.- References.- 11. Compensation in Organisms and Populations.- 11.1. Homeostasis.- 11.2. The Niche and Its Role in Compensation.- 11.3. Factors Affecting the Allocation of the Entropies.- 11.4. The Connection between Adaptability and Complexity.- 11.5. Fundamental Constraints.- 11.6. Patterns of Adaptability in Populations.- 11.7. Evolution of the Higher Nervous System as Compensation.- 11.8. Example of a Different Kind (Homeothermy versus Poikilothermy).- 11.9. Vector Diagrams.- 11.10. Implications for the Etiology of Disease.- 11.11. Implications for the Treatment of Disease.- 11.12. Adaptability versus Adaptation.- References.- 12. Organization and Succession of Ecosystems.- 12.1. Microcosm Experiments and the Reality of Control.- 12.2. Ergodic Analogy.- 12.3. Evolutionary versus Ecological Stability.- 12.4. Environmental Homeostasis.- 12.5. Food Webs and Conservation Laws.- 12.6. Formal Connections to Components of Adaptability.- 12.7. Species Diversity.- 12.8. Detritus Pathway as Buffer System.- 12.9. Trophic Collapse and Trophic Elongation.- 12.10. Niche Divergence and Niche Convergence.- 12.11. Adaptability, Complexity, and the Stabil