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Nature's patterns : a tapestry in three parts /
Patterns are everywhere in nature--in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Where does this order and regularity come from? As Philip Ball reveals in Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts, this order creates itself. The pattern...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The shapes of things : pattern and form
- Lessons of the beehive : building with bubbles
- Making waves : stripes in a test tube
- Written on the body : hiding, warning, and mimicking
- Rhythms of the wild : crustal communities
- How does your garden grow? : the mathematics of a daisy
- Unfolding the embryo : the formation of body plans.