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| Title: | Shape and complexity in living systems |
| Authors: | Miguel, A. F. |
| Keywords: | Shape
structure
scaling laws
Kleiber law
coral colonies
bacteria colonies
allometric law of flight |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | UNIL, Lausanne University Press |
| Citation: | A. F. Miguel (2006) Shape and complexity in living systems. In: “Along with Constructal Theory”, editors: J. Hernandez & M Cosinschi, UNIL, Lausanne, chapter 4, 137-162 |
| Abstract: | Living systems are the most complex and diverse systems in the universe with
their multiple forms covering more than 25 orders of magnitude in massa. What
determines such variety in shape and structure? Is the growth process of living
systems a consequence of chance or of need? In this chapter we review some of
the issues related to shape and structure in living systems and we provide an answer to these questions. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/5547 |
| ISBN: | 2-8399-0203-6 |
| Type: | bookPart |
| Appears in Collections: | CGE - Publicações - Capítulos de Livros
FIS - Publicações - Capítulos de Livros
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