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Why do similar patterns and forms appear in nature in settings that seem to bear no relation to one another? The windblown ripples of desert sand follow a sinuous course that resembles the stripes of a zebra or a marine fish. In the trellis-like shells of microscopic sea creatures we see the same angles and intersections as for bubble walls in a foam. The forks of lightning mirror the branches of a river or a tree. This book explains why these are no coincidences. Nature commonly weaves its tapestry by self-organization, employing no master plan or blueprint but by simple, local interactions between its component parts - be they grains of sand, diffusing molecules or living cells. And the products of self- organization are typically universal patterns: spirals, spots, and stripes, branches, honeycombs. This book explains, in non-technical language, and with profuse illustrations, how nature's patterns are made.

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Brand: Oxford University Press
Model: 16pp colour plates, numerous halftones a
Colour: Blue
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0198502435
Category: Books > Subjects > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Biology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 05 July 2001
Listed Since: 06 February 2007

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