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Life unfolding : how the human body creates itself /

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 challenge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davies, Jamie A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 o.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191654503
0191654507
9781306300513
1306300517