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How does the genome control the construction of a complex multi-cellular system with well defined form and structures from a single cell? Artificial life and developmental biology overlap on some quite important topics. The question above reveals two such pivotal topics: construction and control.
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Kumar, S. (2008). On Form and Function: The Evolution of Developmental Control. In: Hingston, P.F., Barone, L.C., Michalewicz, Z. (eds) Design by Evolution. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74111-4_13
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