The volume includes papers by leading structuralist biologists of Russia and Estonia (e.g., S.Meyen, L.Beloussov, J.Schreider), and also of the Canadian theoretician Robert Rosen, and Tartu semiotician Juri Lotman.
K. Kull, T. Tiivel - Steps in a theoretical biology (11-14) WAYS: S.V. Meyen - On the structure of theoretical biology (15-21) R. Rosen - Constraints and the origin of life (22-26) V.V. Nalimov - Geometrization of fundamental biological concepts (27-33) GROUNDS: V.J. Militarjov - Categories and principles of the natural-scientific theory of classification (34-44) J. Lotman - Natural environment and information (45-47) A. Lotman - On axiomatic method in ethology (48-54) MECHANISMS: L.V. Beloussov - The problem of biological morphogenesis: general approaches and mechano-geometrical models (55-64) J.V. Chaikovsky - To the evolutionary thermodynamics (65-72) K. Kull - The origin of species: a new view (73-77) METHODS: I. Puura - Morphometric analysis of infraspecific variability in palaeontology: concepts and methods (78-83) V.A. Kordyum - Information channels of pro- and eukaryotes: comparative analysis (84-101) T. Tiivel - Adaptation to endocytobiosis in the evolution of cells (102-112) V.F. Mashansky, A.L. Drozdov - The principle of conservatism at the level of cellular ultrastructures and the problem of the appearance of life on Earth (113-120) PRINCIPLES: A.P. Levich - What are the possible theoretical principles in the ecology of communities? (121-128) H. Tooming - Principle of maximum plant productivity (129-138) REFLECTIONS: H. Kallak - On systemic approach in organic evolution (139-146) M. Viikmaa - The main forms and levels of biological organization (147-151) T. Sutt - The conception of universal evolutionism and the anthropic principle (152-158) VALUES: S.V. Chebanov - Theoretical biology in biocentrism (159-168) J.A. Schreider - On socio-humanitarian problems of biological knowledge (169-176) CONSTRAINTS: In memoriam S.V. Meyen (177-180)
