Living SystemsOffering a detailed analysis of each of the major aspects and characteristics encountered at all seven levels, Living Systems identifies multiple variables of each of 9 matter-energy and information-processing subsystems, the normal and pathological states of these variables, and practical indicators for measuring changes in them. It also specifies cross-level formal identities among the levels and describes the artifacts, machines, or technologies at each level. |
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... blood in an artery ( or , in the liver , the portal vein ) entering an organ or organ component and a vein leaving it show how much of any substance is added to or removed from the blood that flows through its vessels . 10 Similarly one ...
... blood in an artery ( or , in the liver , the portal vein ) entering an organ or organ component and a vein leaving it show how much of any substance is added to or removed from the blood that flows through its vessels . 10 Similarly one ...
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... blood volume flowing into them . Others , like tendons , have little blood supply . The need for specific substances also differs from organ to organ . Iron is necessary to the bone marrow which forms red blood cells ; iodine is an ...
... blood volume flowing into them . Others , like tendons , have little blood supply . The need for specific substances also differs from organ to organ . Iron is necessary to the bone marrow which forms red blood cells ; iodine is an ...
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... blood toward the head of the organism . The heart of a fish is little more than such a straight muscular tube in which the blood is carried from the aorta to the gills , for aeration , and then circulated through the blood vessels ...
... blood toward the head of the organism . The heart of a fish is little more than such a straight muscular tube in which the blood is carried from the aorta to the gills , for aeration , and then circulated through the blood vessels ...
Contents
Tables of the Critical Subsystems | xi |
Preface to the First Edition | xxvii |
Outline of Chapters 3 4 and 6 through 12 | xxxviii |
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