Morphogenesis : Origins of Patterns and Shapes - Paul Bourgine

Morphogenesis

Origins of Patterns and Shapes

By: Paul Bourgine, ?Annick Lesne

eText | 28 October 2010 | Edition Number 1

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What are the relations between the shape of a system of cities and that of fish school? Which events should happen in a cell in order that it participates to one of the finger of our hands? How to interpret the shape of a sand dune? This collective book written for the non-specialist addresses these questions and more generally, the fundamental issue of the emergence of forms and patterns in physical and living systems. It is a single book gathering the different aspects of morphogenesis and approaches developed in different disciplines on shape and pattern formation. Relying on the seminal works of D Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing and Ren?? Thom, it confronts major examples like plant growth and shape, intra-cellular organization, evolution of living forms or motifs generated by crystals. A book essential to understand universal principles at work in the shapes and patterns surrounding us but also to avoid spurious analogies.
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