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Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny » Read Now
by Norman MacLeod, Peter L. Forey. 308 pgs.

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This text provides a summary of the interdisciplinary work between biologists & mathematicians of two main areas: those who study form of organisms, & those who work on evolutionary relationships through analysis of common characteristics.
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Biochemistry and Morphogenesis » Read Now
by Joseph Needham. 790 pgs.

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Genesis: The Evolution of Biology (Part I "Evolution and Morphology") » Read Now
by Jan Sapp. 364 pgs.

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This book presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, and general readers interested in the history of science. The book covers the early evolutionary...
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This book presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and biomedical scientists, and general readers interested in the history of science. The book covers the early evolutionary biologists-Lamarck, Cuvier, Darwin, Wallace, etc., through Mayr and the neodarwinian synthesis, in much the same way as other histories of evolution have done, bringing in also the social implications, the struggles with our religious understanding, and the interweaving of genetics into evolutionary theory. What is novel about Sapp's account is a real integration of the cytological tradition, from Schwann, Boveri, and the other early cell biologists and embryologists, and the coverage of symbiosis, microbial evolutionary phylogenies, and the new understanding of complete microbial genomes. The book as a whole will serve as a good introduction to the rise of modern biology over the past two centuries.
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Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing Developmental Evolutionary Biology (Chap. 13 "Morphogenesis") » Read Now
by Anton Markos. 245 pgs.

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This is a wide ranging and deeply learned examination of evolutionary developmental biology, and the foundations of life from the perspective of information theory. Hermeneutics was a method developed in the humanities to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. In...
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This is a wide ranging and deeply learned examination of evolutionary developmental biology, and the foundations of life from the perspective of information theory. Hermeneutics was a method developed in the humanities to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. In Readers of the Book of Life, the author shows that living beings are also hermeneutical interpreters of genetics texts saved in DNA; an interpretation based on the past experience of the cell (cell lineage, species), confronted with and incorporating present environmental clues. This approach stresses the history, not only of the digital record saved in the DNA, but also of the flesh - the cellular organization which has a direct time-continuity with the very origins of life. This book is aimed at reconciling two opposite approaches to life. The first strictly sticking to a belief that all phenomena observed in the realm of the living can be explained from laws of physics. The opposite stressing the importance of features characteristic for a given level of description. To bring both views into a common understanding, the first part gives a comparison of the two problem solving strategies. The second part surveys the development of 20th century biology, bringing to light branches that never became part of the research mainstream. The third section of the book reviews a large body of recent evidence that can be interpreted in favor of the hermeneutic arguments.
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The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life (Chap. 7 "Morphogenesis: Where Form and Function Meet") » Read Now
by Franklin M. Harold. 305 pgs.

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What is life? Fifty years after physicist Erwin Schrodinger posed this question in his celebrated and inspiring book, the answer remains elusive. In The Way of the Cell, one of the world's most respected microbiologists draws on his wide knowledge of contemporary science to provide fresh insight...
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What is life? Fifty years after physicist Erwin Schrodinger posed this question in his celebrated and inspiring book, the answer remains elusive. In The Way of the Cell, one of the world's most respected microbiologists draws on his wide knowledge of contemporary science to provide fresh insight into this intriguing and all-important question. What is the relationship of living things to the inanimate realm of chemistry and physics? How do lifeless but special chemicals come together to form those intricate dynamic ensembles that we recognize as life? To shed light on these questions, Franklin Harold focuses here on microorganisms--in particular, the supremely well-researched bacterium E. coli--because the cell is the simplest level of organization that manifests all the features of the phenomenon of life. Harold shows that as simple as they appear when compared to ourselves, every cell displays a dynamic pattern in space and time, orders of magnitude richer than its elements. It integrates the writhings and couplings of billions of molecules into a coherent whole, draws matter and energy into itself, constructs and reproduces its own order, and persists in this manner for numberless generations while continuously adapting to a changing world. A cell constitutes a unitary whole, a unit of life, and in this volume one of the leading authorities on the cell gives us a vivid picture of what goes on within this minute precinct. The result is a richly detailed, meticulously crafted account of what modern science can tell us about life as well as one scientist's personal attempt to wring understanding from the tide of knowledge.
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Doing What Comes Naturally: Morphogenesis and the Limits of the Genetic Code, in Art Journal » Read Now
by Martin Kemp. 6 pgs.

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Form and Pattern in Human Evolution: Some Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Approaches (Chap. 2 "Associations between Function and Morphology," Chap. 5 "Group Finding Procedures in Morphology," and Chap. 8 "Optical Data Analysis in Morphology") » Read Now
by Charles Oxnard. 218 pgs.

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Brain Morphology and Intelligence, in Developmental Neuropsychology » Read Now
by Erin D. Bigler. 27 pgs.

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...CT scan as an index to pre-injury brain morphology". Brain Injury , 8, 231-238. Bigler...T. J. ( 1992 ). "Degenerative changes in traumatic brain injury: Post-injury...
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The Fine Structure of the Nervous System: Neurons and Their Supporting Cells (Chap. 1 "General Morphology of the Neuron") » Read Now
by Alan Peters, Sanford L. Palay, Henry Webster. 510 pgs.

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This book presents the most complete and authoritative description of the fine structure of the nervous system available in any single volume. The book begins with a historical account of the features of neurons and then embarks on a series of chapters dealing with specific portions of the nerve...
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This book presents the most complete and authoritative description of the fine structure of the nervous system available in any single volume. The book begins with a historical account of the features of neurons and then embarks on a series of chapters dealing with specific portions of the nerve cell, and of the various kinds of supporting cells present. Structure is first described in a general way, and then details of the fine structure of each component are given and attempts are made to relate the structural features to their functions. The book is extensively illustrated with more than 130 electron micrographs and line drawings, over 50 of which are new to the edition. Each of the chapters has been extensively rewritten since the last edition was produced in 1976, so that the book has been brought completely up-to-date.
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Diversity in the Genus Apis (Chap. 3 "Morphological Analysis of the Tribes of Apidae") » Read Now
by Deborah Roan Smith. 265 pgs.

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The Nature of Biological Diversity (Chap. 9 "Differentiation and Morphogenesis in Insects") » Read Now
by John M. Allen. 304 pgs.

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