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Life Unfolding - How the human body creates itself (Hardcover)
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Life Unfolding - How the human body creates itself (Hardcover)
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Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head?
How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the
fingerprints of identical twins not identical? How did my brain
learn to learn? Why must I die?
Questions like these remain biology's deepest and most ancient
challenges. They force us to confront a fundamental biological
problem: how can something as large and complex as a human body
organize itself from the simplicity of a fertilized egg? A
convergence of ideas from embryology, genetics, physics, networks,
and control theory has begun to provide real answers. Based on the
central principle of 'adaptive self-organization, ' it explains how
the interactions of many cells, and of the tiny molecular machines
that run them, can organize tissue structures vastly larger than
themselves, correcting errors as they go along and creating new
layers of complexity where there were none before.
Life Unfolding tells the story of human development from egg to
adult, from this perspective, showing how our whole understanding
of how we come to be has been transformed in recent years.
Highlighting how embryological knowledge is being used to
understand why bodies age and fail, Jamie A. Davies explores the
profound and fascinating impacts of our newfound knowledge.
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