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The Shaping of Life: The Generation of Biological Pattern

Lionel G. Harrison
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 
2011
Number of Pages: 
247
Format: 
Hardcover
Price: 
99.00
ISBN: 
9780521553506
Category: 
Monograph
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Foreword Thurston Lacalli
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Organizer. Organize thyself
Part I. Watching Plants Grow: 2. Branching: how do plants get it started?
3. Whorled structures
4. Dichotomous branching
5. Micrasterias and computing patterning along with growth
Part II. Between Plants and Animals: 6. The emergence of dynamic theories
7. Classifying developmental theories as physical chemistry
Part III. But Animals are Different: 8. The dreaded fruit fly
9. Various vertebrate events
Epilogue
References
Index.