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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQH331 _b.H368 1993
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100	1		_aHarrison, Lionel G., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aKinetic theory of living pattern / _cLionel G. Harrison.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1993.
300			_a1 online resource (354 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aDevelopmental and cell biology series ; _v28
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aDevelopment 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.
650		0	_aBiology _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aKinetic theory of matter.
650		0	_aBiology _xMathematical models.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521306911
830		0	_aDevelopmental and cell biology series ; _v28.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529726
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