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Jochen Fromm-3

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The development of the phenotype is perhaps
the most spectacular form of growth. Even if you
know the principles of epigenesis, morphogenesis
and molecular biology, it is still amazing how
a redwood tree can emerge from a single seed,
how a tyrannosaur can develop from a small egg,
and how a single cell can grow to a blue whale.
Does someone know good general books about this
topic ?

-J.

Carl Tollander

Growth and Development

I like "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" by Sean B. Carroll.
http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Forms-Most-Beautiful-Kingdom/dp/0393060160

I'm looking for something somewhere in between the Carroll book,
Caporale's "Darwin in the Genome" and Margulis and Sagan's "Acquiring
Genomes"
that has a bit more depth about newer stuff like RNA interference.
Anybody know of one?

Carl

Jochen Fromm wrote:

> The development of the phenotype is perhaps
> the most spectacular form of growth. Even if you
> know the principles of epigenesis, morphogenesis
> and molecular biology, it is still amazing how
> a redwood tree can emerge from a single seed,
> how a tyrannosaur can develop from a small egg,
> and how a single cell can grow to a blue whale.
> Does someone know good general books about this
> topic ?
>
> -J.
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Alfredo Covaleda

Growth and Development

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There is a very particular book titled "La Complejidad y la forma" (Complexity
and shape) written by Armando Aranda Anzaldo. The book is about embryology
but besides the scientific aspects it includes an historic review of
embryology and reminds different scientific points of view beginning with the
old Egyptian culture 3500 years ago and ending with chaos. Aristoteles,
D'Arcy Thompson (of course), Bertalanffy, Belusov, Mandelbrot, etc. and even
Goethe are referred in that review. Anyway, most of the book is about
embryology. I'm not sure if the book is available in English.

Talking about morphogenesis it would be useful to read Brian Goodwin work. I
read his book How the Leopard Changes Its Spots. This book was son
enlightening to me.

-Alfredo Covaleda V?lez

On Sunday 15 October 2006 12:46 pm, Jochen Fromm wrote:

Phil Henshaw-2

Growth and Development

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I get confused on the biology and paleontology terms, and even mixed up
and fixed the terms in writing this. I think a 'phenotype' isn't
actually referring to organisms, but one idealized form of organism
resulting from a given set of genes. There's apparently more than one
possibility of what type of organism will result from the same set of
genes. I don't know if it's a technical distinction or actually
alternate forms. One of my technical distinctions would be that when
talking of biological development everyone is almost always talking
about the growth of individual organisms, as you seem to be, not
phenotypes. There may be no evidence at all of the 'growth' of
phenotypes. One might call the growth of an organism the 'expression
of a phenotype' as if the 'type' exists independently of the individuals
we see the pattern in.

Anyway, developmental biology is a big field. One of my favorites on
biological form isn't really about the systems of development, patterns
of biological form. Try D'Arcy Thompson's ancient text "On Growth and
Form" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_biology is also
good.

>
> The development of the phenotype is perhaps
> the most spectacular form of growth. Even if you
> know the principles of epigenesis, morphogenesis
> and molecular biology, it is still amazing how
> a redwood tree can emerge from a single seed,
> how a tyrannosaur can develop from a small egg,
> and how a single cell can grow to a blue whale.
> Does someone know good general books about this
> topic ?
>
> -J.
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>

Phil Henshaw-2

Growth and Development

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Looking around, the ALIFE9 conference had a workshop on biological
development with 15 presenters.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Kumar/sodans.htm

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>
> I like "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" by Sean B. Carroll.
> http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Forms-Most-Beautiful-Kingdom/dp/
> 0393060160
>
> I'm looking for something somewhere in between the Carroll
> book, Caporale's "Darwin in the Genome" and Margulis and
> Sagan's "Acquiring
> Genomes"
> that has a bit more depth about newer stuff like RNA interference.
> Anybody know of one?
>
> Carl
>
> Jochen Fromm wrote:
> > The development of the phenotype is perhaps
> > the most spectacular form of growth. Even if you
> > know the principles of epigenesis, morphogenesis
> > and molecular biology, it is still amazing how
> > a redwood tree can emerge from a single seed,
> > how a tyrannosaur can develop from a small egg,
> > and how a single cell can grow to a blue whale.
> > Does someone know good general books about this
> > topic ?
> >
> > -J.
> >
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures,
> > archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>