1963. Temporal Organization in Cells Academic Press, London 1963, ISBN1376206161
1989. Theoretical Biology: Epigenetic and Evolutionary Order for Complex Systems with Peter Saunders, Edinburgh University Press, 1989, ISBN0-85224-600-5
1994. Mechanical Engineering of the Cytoskeleton in Developmental Biology (International Review of Cytology), with Kwang W. Jeon and Richard J. Gordon, Academic Press, London 1994, ISBN0-12-364553-0
1996. Form and Transformation: Generative and Relational Principles in Biology, Cambridge Univ Press, 1996.
1997. How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity, Scribner, 1994, ISBN0-02-544710-6 (German: Der Leopard, der seine Flecken verliert, Piper, München 1997, ISBN3-492-03873-5)
2001. Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology, with Ricard V. Solé, Basic Books, 2001, ISBN0-465-01927-7
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1997, "Temporal organization and disorganization in organisms". in: Chronobiology International 14 (5): 531-536 1997
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2000, "The life of form. Emergent patterns of morphological transformation". in: Comptes rendud de la Academie des Science III 323 (1): 15-21 JAN 2000
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2002, "In the Shadow of Culture". in: "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century" Edited by John Brockman, Vintage Books, MAY 2002, ISBN0-375-71342-5
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