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The Dynamic Architecture of a Developing Organism - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Development of Organisms (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The Dynamic Architecture of a Developing Organism - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Development of Organisms (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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For anybody capable of an emotional response to it, any view of a
developing organism should give birth to a feeling of amazement and
even admiration, whether this development is seen directly, or in
the form of a time lapse film, or even if mentally reconstructed
from a series of static images. We ask ourselves how such seemingly
primitive eggs or pieces of tissue, without any obvious
intervention from outside, so regularly transform themselves into
precisely constructed adult organisms. If we try to formulate what
amazes us most of all about development, the answer will probably
be that it is the internal capacity of developing organisms
themselves to create new structures. How, then, can we satisfy our
amazement in ways that are more or less reasonable, as well as
scientifically valuable? This depends, first of all, on what
position we choose to regard embryonic development as occupying
among other structure creating processes, even including human
activities. On the one hand, one might regard the development of
organisms as a highly specialized class of processes, unique to
themselves and alien to the general laws of nature, or at least not
derivable from them and more akin to the deliberate acts of our own
human behaviour. In that case our task would become reduced to a
search for some specific 'instructions' for each next member of
such a class. Whether in an overt or hidden form, some such
ideology seems to dominate in present day developmental biology.
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