Essays on growth and form presented to D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson / edited by W.E. Le Gros Clark and P.B. Medawar.
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- 1945
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1945.
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viii, 408 pages : including illustrations, tables, diagrams frontispiece (portrait), plates ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographic references and index
Contents
Deformation patterns in the cerebral cortex, by W.E.L. Clark.--Growth and form in an insect, by V.B. Wigglesworth.--The history of the shape of a nerve-fibre, by J.Z. Young.--On biological transformations, by J.H. Woodger.--Some problems in the study of allometric growth, by E.C.R. Reeve and J.S. Huxley.--Size, shape, and age, by P.B. Medawar.--The analysis of growing form, by O.W. Richards and A.J. Kavanagh.--Size and organization in the development of ascidians, by N.J. Berrill.--Growth and form in tissue cultures, by E.N. Willmer.--Some reflections on the forms of simpler cells, by J.F. Danielli.--The forms of biological molecules, by W.T. Astbury.--Population analysis as a chapter in the mathematical theory of evolution, by A.J. Lotka.--A list of the published writings of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, by G.H. Bushnell.
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