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Academic & Professional Books  Organismal to Molecular Biology  General Biology

The Shaping of Life The Generation of Biological Pattern

By: Lionel G Harrison
247 pages, 61 b/w illus.
The Shaping of Life
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  • The Shaping of Life ISBN: 9780521553506 Hardback Dec 2010 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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About this book

Biological development, how organisms acquire their form, is one of the great frontiers in science. While a vast knowledge of the molecules involved in development has been gained in recent decades, big questions remain on the molecular organization and physics that shape cells, tissues and organisms. Physical scientists and biologists traditionally have very different backgrounds and perspectives, yet some of the fundamental questions in developmental biology will only be answered by combining expertise from a range of disciplines.

This book is a personal account by Professor Lionel Harrison of an interdisciplinary approach to studying biological pattern formation. It articulates the power of studying dynamics in development: that to understand how an organism is made we must not only know the structure of its molecules; we must also understand how they interact and how fast they do so.

Contents

Foreword Thurston Lacalli; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Organizer. Organize thyself; Part I. Watching Plants Grow: 2. Branching: how do plants get it started?; 3. Whorled structures; 4. Dichotomous branching; 5. Micrasterias and computing patterning along with growth; Part II. Between Plants and Animals: 6. The emergence of dynamic theories; 7. Classifying developmental theories as physical chemistry; Part III. But Animals are Different: 8. The dreaded fruit fly; 9. Various vertebrate events; Epilogue; References; Index.

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Biography

Lionel G. Harrison (1929-2008) was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, where he was a faculty member for 50 years. A physical chemist by training, he was inspired to study biological form and 'in developmental biology ... found something different and immensely exciting: a field with a Great Unknown' as he wrote in his 1993 book Kinetic Theory of Living Pattern. 'To pursue it is like trying to account for the rainbow in the 14th century, to do celestial mechanics before Newton, or to pursue quantum theory in the 1890s.'

By: Lionel G Harrison
247 pages, 61 b/w illus.
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Harrison successfully weaves a qualitative description of reaction dynamics, with brief derivations of pertinent equations... The book gives fascinating insight into the creative process of a decidedly interdisciplinary scientist. Recommended. B.D. Spiegelberg, Choice Magazine

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