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

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

Rivista di biologia - 1 Jan 1994

Cherdantsev V G, Scobeyeva V A

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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 n...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Cell Differentiation
Cell Movement
Embryonic and Fetal Development
Genetic Variation
Morphogenesis
Vertebrates

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