Original paper
The old and new faces of morphology: the legacy of D'Arcy Thompson's ‘theory of transformations' and ‘laws of growth'
Abstract
In 1917, the publication of On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson challenged both mathematicians and naturalists to think about biological shapes and diversity as more than a confusion of chaotic forms generated at random, but rather as geometric shapes that could be described by principles of physics and mathematics. Thompson's work was based on the ideas of Galileo and Goethe on morphology and of Russell on functionalism, but he was...
Paper Details
Title
The old and new faces of morphology: the legacy of D'Arcy Thompson's ‘theory of transformations' and ‘laws of growth'
Published Date
Dec 1, 2017
Journal
Volume
144
Issue
23
Pages
4284 - 4297
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