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9780198503439

The Art of Genes How Organisms Make Themselves

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198503439

  • ISBN10:

    0198503431

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-08-26
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This groundbreaking new way of looking at one of the last great mysteries of biology offers insights into the nature of evolution, development, and human creativity. 24 halftones. 144 line illustrations.

Author Biography


Enrico Coen is Professor in the Genetics Department at the John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Table of Contents

Painting a picture
1(15)
Copying and creating
16(23)
A question of interpretation
39(16)
A case of mistaken identity
55(24)
The internal world of colour
79(18)
Evolution of locks and keys
97(9)
The hidden skeleton
106(25)
The expanding canvas
131(13)
Refining a pattern
144(29)
Creative reproduction
173(8)
Scents and sensitivities
181(26)
Responding to the environment
207(23)
Elaborating on asymmetry
230(28)
Beneath the surface
258(22)
Themes and variations
280(24)
Shifting forms
304(19)
The story of colour
323(20)
The art of Heath Robinson
343(20)
Sources of quotations 363(4)
Bibliography 367(6)
Glossary 373(5)
Figure acknowledgements 378(1)
Index 379

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