Author: Adolf PortmannPublisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Animal Forms and Patterns
Author: Adolf PortmannPublisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails
Author: Betsy FrancoPublisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 9781416903864
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock's flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake's skin is patterned with diamonds. Poet Betsy Franco and Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins bring geometry to life in this lively, lyrical look at the shapes and patterns that can be found in the most unexpected places.
Shapes
Author: Philip BallPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019960486X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"Ball takes us on an inspiring journey into the depths of nature, encompassing all the sciences, in which we discover that broad and elegant principles underpin the formation of the countless beautiful patterns around us."--Inside jacket.
Shapes and Patterns in Nature
Author: Jana SedlackovaPublisher: Albatros Media
ISBN: 9788000061252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Concepts of Biology
Author: Samantha FowlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781739015503
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Black & white print. Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy.
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Traditional Methods of Pattern Designing
Author: Archibald H. ChristiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Development of Animal Form
Author: Alessandro MinelliPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139437801
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Contemporary research in the field of evolutionary developmental biology, or 'evo-devo', has to date been predominantly devoted to interpreting basic features of animal architecture in molecular genetics terms. Considerably less time has been spent on the exploitation of the wealth of facts and concepts available from traditional disciplines, such as comparative morphology, even though these traditional approaches can continue to offer a fresh insight into evolutionary developmental questions. The Development of Animal Form aims to integrate traditional morphological and contemporary molecular genetic approaches and to deal with post-embryonic development as well. This approach leads to unconventional views on the basic features of animal organization, such as body axes, symmetry, segments, body regions, appendages and related concepts. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in evolutionary and developmental biology, as well as to those in related areas of cell biology, genetics and zoology.
The Genesis of Living Forms
Author: Raymond RuyerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1786600897
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The philosophy of Raymond Ruyer was an important if subterranean influence on twentieth-century French thought, and explicitly engaged with by figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. The Genesis of Living Forms is Ruyer’s most focussed and forceful analysis of a central but apparently paradoxical biological phenomenon that also presents serious problems for philosophy: embryogenesis. When a cat develops from the early stages of fertilization to an adult, what is it that makes it the same cat? How is it that a living being can at once be the same and constantly changing? Ruyer’s answer to these questions unfolds through a detailed set of encounters with major scientific fields, from particle physics to social psychology, arguing that the paradox can only be dissolved by seeing the role that form plays in the ongoing development of living beings. In Ruyer’s view, embryogenesis is a central problem not just in the life sciences; every thing must possess a relation to a form that is characteristic of it, from carbon atoms to embryos, and to embryologists themselves.