P. Bourgine – Morphogenesis (2011)

Автор: P. Bourgine
Название книги: Morphogenesis
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Биологические науки
Страницы: 364
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

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 René 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.
Contents
Introduction
Self-organization at equilibrum. A model system: ferrofluids
Hierarchical networks of fractures
Liquid crystals and morphogenesis
Biological self-organization by way of the dynamics of reactive processes
Sand dunes
Morphodynamics of secretory pathways
From epigenomics to morphogenetic emergence
Animal morphogenesis
Phyllotaxy
Logic of forms
Forms emerging from collective motion
Systems of cities and levels of organization
Levels of organization and morphogenesis: the viewpoint of D'Arcy Thompson
Morphogenetic models of René Thom
Morphogenesis, structural stability and epigenetic landscape
Morphological and mutational analysis: tools for morphogenesis study