This wonderful book of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) provides a vision for growth and living way that clashes with the evolutionary paradigm. The author wrote the book in 1917, then in 1942 it expanded to reach 1,116 pages wound. At the moment I found only one edition in Castilian, but small, this version to condense the text, eliminated entire sections relating mainly to vegetables.
D 'Arcy Thompson shows with thousands of examples of how living things have little or nothing to do with their genes-proteins. Environmental conditions, the laws of physics, chemistry, gravity (in general all laws of nature) and the growth parameters shape the way of being.
Start with simple examples on how unicellular organisms, in the shape of the zygote and morula, in the shape of the leaves, corresponding to logarithmic growth of arithmetic series, in the form of jellyfish, mainly due to physical laws governing the membranes separating two liquids of different densities, such as jellyfish have to be "pockets of liquid-viscous" surrounded by water, suggesting in this case, a simple experiment with water and ink which causes forms of jellyfish.
D 'Arcy Thompson shows with thousands of examples of how living things have little or nothing to do with their genes-proteins. Environmental conditions, the laws of physics, chemistry, gravity (in general all laws of nature) and the growth parameters shape the way of being.
Start with simple examples on how unicellular organisms, in the shape of the zygote and morula, in the shape of the leaves, corresponding to logarithmic growth of arithmetic series, in the form of jellyfish, mainly due to physical laws governing the membranes separating two liquids of different densities, such as jellyfish have to be "pockets of liquid-viscous" surrounded by water, suggesting in this case, a simple experiment with water and ink which causes forms of jellyfish.
speaks of the growth of horns, claws and fangs and its various curls. Profusely says the bony structures of mammals and reptiles, showing countless examples and figures like the skeleton of quadrupeds is constructed in a similar way to how Engineers build large steel bridges. Study
inner trabecular bone, which are built specifically to withstand the kind of physical effort to be supported. Quote
other scientific experiments, experiments that really matter, and generally muted, such as those made with planktonic foraminifera, which was added a few drops of alkali to the water in which lived, and built the shells exactly like those of other species.
And much more. The author was a true scholar, not merely the empirical sciences, masterfully dominated the philosophy, history, engineering, and literature.
This is a very enlightening book that I highly recommend to those interested in seeking the truth about how living things, this book offers a range of research to be done.
D 'Arcy Thompson "On Growth and Form" Editing John Tyler Bonner, published by Cambridge University Press. Madrid, from 2,003 to 325 pages.
Semogil March 12, 2010
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