KINETIC THEORY OF LIVING PATTERN by Lionel G. Harrison, Jonathan B. L. Bard, Peter W. Barlow ( 9780521019910 )

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Title:

KINETIC THEORY OF LIVING PATTERN

By:

Lionel G. Harrison, Jonathan B. L. Bard, Peter W. Barlow

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ISBN 10:

0521019915

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 June, 2005

Series:

Developmental and Cell Biology Series No. 28

Pages:

380

Description:

Discusses the development of the shapes of living organisms and their parts in a field of science in which there are no generally accepted theoretical principles.

Synopsis:

Development of the shapes of living organisms and their parts is a field of science in which there are no generally accepted theoretical principles. What form these principles are likely to take, when they emerge, is a subject in which there is a wide gulf of disagreement between physical scientists and experimental biologists. This book contains both an extensive philosophical commentary on this dichotomy in views and an exposition of the type of theory most favoured by physical scientists. In this theory living form is a manifestation of the dynamics of chemical change and physical transport or other physics of spatial communication. The reaction-diffusion theory, as initiated by Turing in 1952 and since elaborated by Prigogine and by Gierer and Meinhardt among others, is discussed in detail at a level that requires a good knowledge of a first course in calculus, but no more than that.

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95 b/w illus. 4 tables

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