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100 1 _aDavies, Jamie A.
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240 0 0 _aLife unfolding
245 0 0 _aLife unfolding
_bhow the human body creates itself
_cJamie A. Davies
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_cc2014.
300 _aXI, 299 S.
_bgraph. Darst.
490 0 _apopular science
520 _aWhere 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 on the central principle of 'adaptive self-organization', it explains how the interactions of many cells, and of the tiny molecular machines that run them, can organize tissue structures vastly larger than themselves, correcting errors as they go along and creating new layers of complexity where there were none before. Life Unfolding tells the story of human development from egg to adult, from this perspective, showing how our whole understanding of how we come to be has been transformed in recent years. Highlighting how embryological knowledge is being used to understand why bodies age and fail, Jamie A. Davies explores the profound and fascinating impacts of our newfound knowledge. This book presents the emerging picture of how the human body makes itself, for self -organization is the key. Drawing on cutting edge science, Jamie A. Davies takes us step by step through the processs that together build a human body.
650 1 0 _aMensch
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650 1 0 _aEntwicklung
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650 1 0 _aEmbryologie
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650 1 0 _aWachstum
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650 1 0 _aStammzelle
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650 1 0 _aSelbstorganisation
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650 1 0 _aZelldifferenzierung
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650 1 0 _aEpigenetik
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650 1 0 _aEntwicklungsbiologie
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650 1 0 _aEvolution
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650 1 0 _aOntogenie
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650 1 0 _aOrganogenese
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