On Growth and Form
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Why do living things and physical phenomena take the forms they do? Analyzing the mathematical and physical aspects of biological processes, this historic work, first published in 1917, has become renowned as well for the poetry of is descriptions.
Chapters (44)
- GROWTH AND FORM
- Prefatory Note.
- List of Illustrations.
- I. Introductory.
- II. On Magnitude.
- III. The Rate of Growth.
- The rate of growth in Man.
- Pre-natal and post-natal growth.
- Variability and Correlation of Growth.
- Rate of growth in other organisms.
- The rate of growth of various parts or organs.
- The effect of temperature*.
- Osmotic factors in growth.
- Growth and catalytic action.
- Regeneration, or growth and repair.
- CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY.
- IV. On the Internal Form and Structure of the Cell.
- V. The Forms of Cells
- VI. A Note on Adsorption.
- VII. The Forms of Tissues Or Cell-aggregates.
- VIII. The Forms of Tissues or Cell-aggregates (continued)
- IX. On Concretions, Spicules, and Spicular Skeletons.
- X. A Parenthetic Note on Geodetics.
- XI. The Logarithmic Spiral.
- The Univalve Shell: a summary.
- Of Bivalve Shells.
- The Shells of Pteropods.
- Of Septa.
- XII. The Spiral Shells of the Foraminifera.
- Conclusion.
- XIII. The Shapes of Horns, and of Teeth Or Tusks: With a Note on Torsion.
- A further Note upon Torsion.
- Of Deer’s Antlers.
- Of Teeth, and of Beak and Claw.
- XIV. On Leaf-arrangement, Or Phyllotaxis.
- XV. On the Shapes of Eggs, and of Certain Other Hollow Structures.
- On the Form of Sea-urchins
- On the Form and Branching of Blood-vessels
- XVI. On Form and Mechanical Efficiency.
- XVII. On the Theory of Transformations, Or the Comparison of Related Forms.
- Epilogue.
- NOTES:
- Index.
- Selection from the General Catalogue of Books Published by the Cambridge University Press.
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