Davies Jamie A. (Professor Of Experimental Anatomy Professor Of Experimental Anatomy University Of Edinburgh)
Davies Jamie A. (Professor Of Experimental Anatomy Professor Of Experimental Anatomy University Of Edinburgh) - Life Unfolding How The Human Body Creates Itself - Paperback
Davies Jamie A. (Professor Of Experimental Anatomy Professor Of Experimental Anatomy University Of Edinburgh) - Life Unfolding How The Human Body Creates Itself - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Life Unfolding How The Human Body Creates Itself
Author(s): Davies Jamie A. (Professor Of Experimental Anatomy Professor Of Experimental Anatomy University Of Edinburgh)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199673544
Pages: 320 Pages, Approximately 86 Black And White Line Illustrations
Publication Date: 12/22/2015
Category: Developmental Biology
Description: 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.
Title: Life Unfolding How The Human Body Creates Itself
Author(s): Davies Jamie A. (Professor Of Experimental Anatomy Professor Of Experimental Anatomy University Of Edinburgh)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199673544
Pages: 320 Pages, Approximately 86 Black And White Line Illustrations
Publication Date: 12/22/2015
Category: Developmental Biology
