Abstract
Introduction John Tyler Bonner VII 1. Introductory 2. On magnitude 3. The forms of cells 4. The forms of tissues, of cell-aggregates 5. On spicules and spicular skeletons 6. The equiangular spiral 7. The shapes of horns and of teeth or tusks 8. On form and mechanical efficiency 9. On the theory of transformations, or the comparison of related forms 10. Epilogue Index.
Keywords
Sponge spiculeIndex (typography)Spiral (railway)BiologyMathematicsPaleontologyComputer scienceMathematical analysis
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D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
(2019).
On Growth and Form, 1917.
Princeton University Press eBooks
, 230-251.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691183978-018
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