Morphogenesis Origins of Patterns and Shapes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bourgine, Paul (Editor), Lesne, Annick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Complexity, Computational.; Complexity.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.

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...

Table of 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
• Morphogenesis in computer science.