The morphological basis of self-organization. Developmental and evolutionary aspects.

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Developmental self-organization is usually considered as a matter of reaction-diffusion systems. These systems, however, require a specification that can arise only from natural selection. Meanwhile, in the evolutionary context, self-organization is equivalent to the origination of evolutionary novelties: this implies that new structural patterns emerge before they acquire a definite biological function, so that...

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