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Yuri K. Shestopaloff
Physics
of growth and replication. Physical and geometrical perspectives on
living organisms’
development. 2010, 173 p.
ISBN
978-0-9809667-5-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009943094
Hard cover,
Library binding, 8.5
x 5.5
This
book introduces the physical mechanisms that besides the biochemical and other
factors govern the growth and replication of living organisms. Presently, these
phenomena are overwhelmingly considered as biological, genetic, and biochemical,
which is true. However, natural phenomena exist in a real world that does not
have purely physical or biological boundaries, which subjectively imposed by our
excessive human desire for classification and absolutization. Physical laws, as
an inherent part of Nature, influence such universal phenomena as growth and
replication of living organisms. The book presents detailed study of such
fundamental physical growth mechanism. It introduces a general mathematical
equation describing the growth of living organisms from the physical and
geometrical perspective, and applies it to modeling of different growth
scenarios supported by experimental observations. Cells’ growth is the primary
area of the study, although the author also makes some generalizations and
comments on related natural philosophy issues. One small chapter considers the
growth of multicellular organisms. The whole material is presented in such a way
that any person interested in the subject and familiar with the basics of
physics and biology will be comfortable with the main concepts and the whole
content, which is much facilitated by numerous graphical illustrations.
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