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Research in biomathematics has played an important role in identifying the biological principles that are responsible for patterns. What has been missing is the link between biological phenomena that occur at different scales.
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Capasso, V. (2013). Randomness and Geometric Structures in Biology. In: Capasso, V., Gromov, M., Harel-Bellan, A., Morozova, N., Pritchard, L. (eds) Pattern Formation in Morphogenesis. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20164-6_21
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