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To justify an intrusion into biology, physicists must bring humility and novel approaches. Our approaches must yield results meaningful to biologists or we reenact the old joke of the spherical cow. Naively, we can look at embryological development as a problem in pattern formation. How does a fertilized (or even unfertilized) egg, give rise to the complex structure of an animal? Clearly, the question is arrogant and too hard: animals are much more complex spatially and temporally than even the most complex hydrodynamics. On the other hand, we can recognize, at least locally and over short times, processes that resemble pure physical or chemical phenomena.
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Glazier, J.A., Upadhyaya, A. (1998). First Steps Towards a Comprehensive Model of Tissues, or: A Physicist Looks at Development. In: Beysens, D.A., Forgacs, G. (eds) Dynamical Networks in Physics and Biology. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03524-5_13
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