ENGLISH

Kinetic Theory of Living Pattern (Developmental and Cell Biology Series)

By Lionel G. Harrison

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
9780521306911, 9780521019910, 9780511529726, 0521306914, 0521019915, 0511529724
LCC
QH331 .H368 1993
Open Library ID
OL1710671M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2712636 bytes)
Pages
376\375
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book contains both an extensive philosophical commentary on this dichotomy in views and an exposition of the type of theory most favored 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 elaborated by Prigogine, Gierer, Meinhardt, and others is discussed in detail. In some respects the book takes up the theme that "the things we see in the cell are less important than the actions we recognize in the cell", which was a major theme of D'Arcy W. Thompson's classic 1917 work On Growth and Form.

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