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Following the Scottish morphologist Wentworth D’Arcy Thompson, the study of living morphogenesis should take into account the effects of mechanical forces acting on the growing processes.
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See for example Erwin Schrödinger’s What is life?, of 1944, in which the physicst described genes as a codescript.
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Invited speakers: Giuseppe Longo (CNRS & ENS), Nadine Peyriéras (CNRS), Béenédicte Grosjean (ENSAP Lille), Alberto Magnaghi (Università di Firenze), Luc Gwiazdzinski (Université de Grenoble), Mark Burry (RMIT Melbourne).
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Franceschelli, S. (2013). Morphogenesis and Dynamical Systems. In: Emmer, M. (eds) Imagine Math 2. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2889-0_14
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