Index 



amino acid, 21, 22, 25 



a priori probability, 14, 16 



art, 91, 92 



awareness, 61, 95 



analogy, limitations of, 102, 103 



beaver, 69 



binary fission, 53 



blood corpuscles, 72 



boundaries of societal organisms, 94 



brain, human, 95, 100 



cancer, 39 



cell, 24, 25, 44, 61 



central nervous system, 95, 99 



colloids, 19, 20, 26 



colony, 56, 57 



consciousness, 95, 96, 98, 100, 118 



cybernetics, 17 



cell colony, 41, 43, 117 



conjugation, 28, 29, 35 



crystals, 18, 19, 26 



chromosomes, 46 



death, 29, 33, 37, 38, 45 



endomixis, 37 



energy, 23 



entropy, 16, 17, 53, 54, 93, 106 



evolution of chemical complexity, 



13 

 extropy. 16, 17, 49, 54, 64, 88, 93, 



106 



galaxies, 13 

 genes, 44, 46 

 genetic code, 60 

 genetic mutation, 34 

 genetic theory, 51, 52, 70 



herd, 56 



hermaphrodite method of reproduc- 

 tion, 42 



insects, 58, 59, 64, 65, 89 

 instinct, 59, 60, 70 

 intclUgencc, 59, 114 



Kosok, Paul, 17 



language, 73, 74, 75, 76 

 life span, 39, 40 

 lobster, 94 



mammals, 69 

 metazoa, 38, 41, 43, 47 

 mutation, 31, 33, 34, 35, 46, 47, 88 

 mitosis, 33, 45 107 



Paramecium, 36 

 polymerization, 21, 26, 55 

 probability of survival, 21 

 protein, 21 

 plant life, 23 

 protozoa, 27, 37, 38, 48 

 pre-organic evolution, 12 



randomness, 17 

 reduction-division, 46 

 resonance, 26 



110 

 reproduction, 27, 29, 45, 46, 66, 109 

 rickettsiae, 24 



Schroedinger, Erwin, 17 



science, 83 



second law of thermodynamics, 15, 



23, 30, 37, 106 

 sexual reproduction, 42, 44 

 societal knowledge, 78, 81, 82 

 societal memory, 81, 82 

 societal integration, 64 

 societal organism, 57, 58, 66, 71, 88 

 sociability, 56 



socio-political conclusions. 111 

 somatic mutation, 32, 33 

 super-societal organism, 115 

 survival, 21, 54, 59, 69, 107 



technology, 83 

 tobacco mosaic, 24 



vaccinia, 24 

 valence, 26 

 virus, 21, 24. 55 

 vol vox, 41 



120 



