The Explosion of Life Forms: Living Beings and Morphology 1st Edition Coll

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1789450055
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1789450057
• Author(s): Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade

One of the essential characteristics of living beings is the explosion of variety in their forms that is intrinsically linked to the diversity of the environments they have adapted to.

This book, the result of collaboration between international specialists, analyzes the multiplicity of these morphologies. It explores the origin of forms, their role in defining living things, and the relationship between form and function. It exposes the role of genes and epigenetics and examines the forms of bacteria, protists and plants. The Explosion of Life Forms also studies the memory of animals and their sensory processes, the forms of robots (built in the image of living things), and medical technologies aimed at restoring damaged living forms. Finally, this work questions a common principle of construction in the diversity of forms, as well as the idea of an abandonment of the form, a possible hidden defect of some modern philosophies.

Table contents:

Introduction
1 Possible Traces and Clues of Early Life Forms
2 The Nature of Life
3 From Form to Function
4 On Growth and Form: Context and Purpose

5 The Emergence of Form in the History of Epigenetics
6 The Many Shapes of Microbial Detection of Kin and Kind
7 Development and Evolution of Plant Forms
8 Forms of Memory
9 The Construction of Sensory Universes

10 Emotional and Social Forms of Robots
11 When Medical Technology Mimics Living Forms
12 From Living to Thinking: Mosaic Architecture
13 Converging Technologies or Paradoxes of Power
Index
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