Selected reading: Reaction–diffusion and positional-information arguments.
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How do cells make a body?
Identify the signal, positional interpretation and cellular response in the proposed mechanism.
Ideas and questions
Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.
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Endogenous Bioelectrics in Development, Cancer, and Regeneration: Drugs and Bioelectronic Devices as Electroceuticals for Regenerative Medicine
Michael Levin. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
The Computational Boundary of a “Self”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition
Michael Levin. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Top-down models in biology: explanation and control of complex living systems above the molecular level
Giovanni Pezzulo · Michael Levin. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Sean B. Carroll. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Thompson. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.