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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Theoretical biology.

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Parent topics

Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from nonliving systems. [e]
Theory [r]: An abstract description of causal relationships. [e]

Subtopics

Mathematical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by mathematical means. [e]
Evolutionary biology [r]: The study of the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. [e]
Biological mathematics [r]: The subdiscipline of mathematics that explores and exploits the use of biological systems to perform mathematical/computational operations and achieve solutions to mathematical/computational problems — e.g., DNA computing. [e]
Systems biology [r]: The study of biological systems as a whole. [e]
Emergence (biology) [r]: The phenomenon whereby properties, functions and behaviors appear in living systems though not exhibited by any individual component of the system, and not explainable or predictable from complete understanding the components' properties/behaviors considered in isolation from the system that embeds them. [e]
Evolutionary fitness [r]: Add brief definition or description
Natural selection [r]: The differential survival and/or reproduction of classes of entities that differ in one or more characteristics [e]
Sexual selection [r]: Add brief definition or description
Kin selection [r]: Add brief definition or description
Inclusive fitness [r]: Add brief definition or description
Selfish gene [r]: Add brief definition or description
Computational biology [r]: The study of biological systems by computational means [e]
Computational morphometry [r]: The study of shapes by computational means. [e]
Brain morphometry [r]: The quantification of correlations between structures and functions in the brain. [e]
Endothermy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Exothermy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Coevolution [r]: Multi-generation interactions between different species, e.g. as prey and preditor, flower and insect. [e]
Symbiosis [r]: The interdependence of organisms belonging to different species. [e]
Philosophy of biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
The species question [r]: Add brief definition or description
Niche construction [r]: Add brief definition or description
Origin of life [r]: How did self-replicating biochemistry and cells arise from the prebiotic world approximately four billion years ago? Aka abiogenesis. [e]
Exobiology [r]: The theoretical and experimental study of living systems outside our planet. [e]
Autopoiesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
Self-organization [r]: The ability of matter to structure itself; a precondition for life. [e]
Information processing in biological systems [r]: Add brief definition or description
Allostasis and allostatic load [r]: The physiological adaptation process to perturbing stressors, which acting long-term may cause chronic illness. [e]
Hormesis [r]: A quantitative and qualitative dose-response relationship in which the effect at low concentrations occurs in the opposite direction from that expected from the effect observed at higher concentrations. [e]
The thermodynamics of life [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

Allometry [r]: The study of scaling effects in biology. [e]
Analogy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Astrobiology [r]: The study of life in the universe. [e]
Beauty [r]: Add brief definition or description
Biogeosciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
Biogeochemistry [r]: Add brief definition or description
Biochemistry [r]: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]
Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. [e]
Biosphere [r]: The entirety of places on Earth inhabited by living organisms. [e]
Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [e]
Convergent evolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
Deep homology [r]: Add brief definition or description
Developmental biology [r]: The study of how cells grow and interact to form an organism. [e]
DNA [r]: A macromolecule that stores genetic information. Chemically, a nucleic acid. [e]
Dynamic stabilization [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ecology [r]: The study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and how they are affected by the environment. [e]
Ecosystem [r]: A space in which multiple biological species interact. [e]
Eusociality [r]: Add brief definition or description
Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
Evolutionary biology [r]: The study of the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. [e]
Exciton [r]: Add brief definition or description
Experimental biology [r]: Add brief definition or description
Fibonacci number [r]: Element of the sequence in which the first number is 0, the second number is 1, and each subsequent number is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers. [e]
Game theory [r]: A field of mathematics commonly associated with economics that provides models for behavior in many diverse situations, and is used in many academic fields from politics to computer science. [e]
Golden ratio [r]: An irrational mathematical constant — equal to (1+√5)/2, or approximately 1.618 — that is widely used in art, architecture, and design, for its aesthetic harmonious proportions. [e]
Homology [r]: A concept used in a variety of ways to denote common evolutionary descent of biological characteristics. [e]
Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from nonliving systems. [e]
Major transitions in evolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
Metabolism [r]: The modification of chemical substances by living organisms. [e]
Molecular clock [r]: Add brief definition or description
Molecular modeling [r]: Add brief definition or description
Molecular motor [r]: Add brief definition or description
Monte-Carlo simulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Morphology (biology) [r]: The study of biological structure. [e]
Nerve signaling [r]: Add brief definition or description
Neural network [r]: Add brief definition or description
Neuroimaging [r]: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e]
Origin of life [r]: How did self-replicating biochemistry and cells arise from the prebiotic world approximately four billion years ago? Aka abiogenesis. [e]
Origin of language [r]: Add brief definition or description
Origin of music [r]: The evolutionary background of the human capacity for music. [e]
Photosynthesis [r]: Scientific term for the conversion of sunlight into energy by plants [e]
Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
Physical chemistry [r]: The application of physics to macroscopic, microscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems within the field of chemistry traditionally using the principles, practices and concepts of thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics and kinetics. [e]
Physiology [r]: The study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of tissues and how they interact. [e]
Population ecology [r]: Sub-field of ecology concerning dynamics of species populations and their interactions with the environment. [e]
Power law [r]: A mathematical relationship between two quantities where one is proportional to a power of the other: that is, of the form $y(x) = ax^k\!$ where $a$ and $k$ are constants, with $k$ being referred to as the exponent. [e]
RNA world hypothesis [r]: Proposes that a world filled with life based on ribonucleic acid (RNA) predated current life based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). [e]
Signaling pathway [r]: Add brief definition or description
Steady state [r]: A situation with constant system properties despite non-vanishing energy flow. [e]
Shape description [r]: Mathematical subfield concerned with the quantification of arbitrary shapes. [e]
Snowball Earth [r]: A hypothesis that proposes Earth was entirely covered by ice during parts of the Cryogenian period, from 790 to 630 million years ago. [e]
Synapse [r]: Contact point between neurons and other cells, crucial for nerve signalling [e]
Tensegrity [r]: The structural integrity achieved by balanced pulling and pushing forces in biological structures or architecture; the word is a linguistic blend of tension and integrity. [e]
Theoretical chemistry [r]: The description of atoms, molecules and reactions in mathematical form. [e]
Theoretical physics [r]: The description of natural phenomena in mathematical form. [e]