TY  - JOUR
TI  - A review of Stuart Pivar´s book Lifecode: The Theory of Biological Self Organization
AU  - Gordon, Richard
T2  - The International Journal of Developmental Biology
AB  - The beauty of the form of organisms has captured our imagination ever since our ancestors created cave paintings, petroglyphs and petroforms. The capture of nature in art, in pressed flowers and in stuffed animals in museums, sometimes to the point of extinction, accelerated as Europeans colonized the world and collected all manner of beasts, usually dead. The preserved, fixed points in the life cycle of organisms would sometimes be arranged in presumed sequences, but the dynamic, four dimensional nature of life was effectively collapsed by pressing or dessication into two or three dimensions. Only a few of us have had the privilege of studying the unfolding of embryos in vivo, via time-lapse microscopy. This viewpoint reveals the pulsing explosion of an organism from the humble, simple-looking one celled egg.
PY  - 2006
DO  - 10.1387/ijdb.052099rg
VL  - 50
IS  - 2-3
SP  - 367
EP  - 368
J2  - Int. J. Dev. Biol.
LA  - en
SN  - 0214-6282
SN  - 1696-3547
UR  - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/052099rg
Y2  - 2024/11/05/17:20:38
ER  -