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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. General Problems -- Information and Cybernetic Aspects of Biological Thermodynamics / Leuschner, D. -- Some Relations of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Open Systems / Stratonovich, R. L. -- The Statistical Background of the Clansdorff-Prigogine Criterion / Schlögl, F. -- Thermodynamic Analogies in Statistical Theory of Dynamic Systems / Platonov, A. A. -- Stochastic Criterion in Dynamical Systems / Presnov, E. V. -- Phases with Internal Degrees of Freedom and Their Heterogeneous Transformations / Eliseev, E. N. -- II. Information Theory -- Towards a Dynamic Information Theory / Haken, H. -- On the Problem of the Valuability of Information / Stratonovich, R. L. -- Relativistic Information and Biology / Jumarie, G. -- III. Thermodynamics of Information Processes -- Entropy and Information The Supernatural Actions of Maxwell's Demon / Lamprecht, I. -- Thermodynamics and Information / Poplavsky, R. P. -- Entropy of Information Theory and Thermodynamic Entropy / Terentjeva, Z . A. -- Optimal Thermodynamic Processes Under Chemical Reactions and Diffusion / Rozonoer, L. I. -- IV. Control and Regulation in Biological Systems -- Order and Disorder in Biological Control Systems / Rosen, R. -- Simple Feedback System Used to Model Biomolecular Reactions in Drug-Receptor Populations / Seese, A. / Mager, P. P. -- Towards a Stochastic Theory of Photoreception / Schnakenberg, J. / Keiper, W. -- Temperature Homeostasis and Principles of its Regulation in the Living Organism / Ivanov, K. P. -- V. Extremal Principles -- An Extremal Principle for Biomass Diversity in Ecology / Lurie, D. / Wagensberg, J. -- Optimal Principle and Temperature Conditions For the Existence of Animals / Lapkin, V. V. -- Optimal Heat Insulation of Homeotherms / Khanin, M. A. / Bat, O. G. -- Thermodynamics of Processes and the Evolution of Simple Biothermodynamic Populations / Keller, J . U. -- VI. Synergetics - The Problems of Seiforganisation -- Self-Organisation Processes and Their Modelling / Vasiliev, V. A. / Romanovskij, Yu. M. -- Stochastic Dissipative Structures / Pikovsky, A. S. / Rabinovich, M. I. -- Symmetry Breaking Instabilities in Chemical Systems / Dewel, G. / Borckmans, P. / Walgraef, D. -- Dynamic Model of the Origin of Order in Controlled Macrosystems / Lerner, V. S. -- VII. The Problems of Evolution -- Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Hypercycles / Ishida, K. -- New Information in Evolution / Chernavskaya, N. M. / Chernavsky, D. S. -- State Spread and Evolution in Chemical Systems / Nikolaev, L. A. -- Stochastic Models of Evolutionary Processes / Feistel, R. / Ebeling, W. -- Bioenergetic Trends of Evolutionary Progress of Organisms / Zotin, A. I. -- VIII. Ontogenesis -- Continuous Phase Transitions and Morphogenesis / Rius, J . L. / Goodwin, B. C. -- Stability of Ontogenesis / Zotin, A. I. / Alekseeva, T. A. -- Analysis of Homeorhesis in Ontogenetic, Population and Evolutionary Aspects / Zakharov, V. M. -- Thermodynamic Aspects of Plant Ontogenesis / Zelawski, W. / Galinski, W. -- Concluding Remarks -- List of Contributors -- References -- Subject Index -- Backmatter