M. : World, 1970. — 182 s. The book is the result of the first symposium on theoretical biology. It was a somewhat unusual symposium: only two papers were discussed (K.) Waddington "Basic Ideas in Biology" and E. Mayr "Cause and Effect in Biology") sent to participants in advance. After the symposium, the participants presented articles on some of the issues discussed. All these materials have made an extremely interesting book in which biologists, physicists, mathematicians and chemists consider a number of basic problems of modern theoretical biology concerning the theory of evolution, molecular biology, regulatory processes, morphogenesis processes, etc. d. Designed for a wide range of readers biologists, physicists, chemists, mathematicians, philosophers