Contents vii 



A Quantitative Description of Latent Injury from Ionizing Radiation 331 



H. A. Blair 



Some Notes on Aging 341 



Hardin B. Jones 



Cancer as a Special Case of a General Degenerative Process 347 



Harry Auerbach 



Discussion 351 



Free Radicals as a Possible Cause of Mutations and Cancer 353 



Walter Gordy 



PART VI. INFORMATION NETWORKS 



A Probabilistic Model for Morphogenesis 359 



Murray Eden 



Functional Geometry and the Determination of Pattern in Mosaic Receptors 371 

 John R. Platt 



PART VII. THE STATUS OF INFORMATION THEORY IN BIOLOGY 



The Status of Information Theory in Biology: A Round Table Discussion 399 



Edited by Henry Quastler 



Author Index 403 



Subject Index 41 1 



