Life Unfolding - Davies Jamie A.
Life Unfolding - Davies Jamie A. Where did I come from? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How did my brain learn to learn? Why are the…
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Life Unfolding - Davies Jamie A.
Where did I come from? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why do I have two arms but just one head?
How did my brain learn to learn? Why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? 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