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How do cells make a body?
Compare this account’s mechanism with the preceding reading; note where their predictions differ.
What would distinguish an anatomical-control mechanism from a metaphor about cognition?
Developmental bioelectricity and frameworks for regulation and biological agency. Separate a voltage intervention and observed anatomical outcome from its interpretation.
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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.
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.
Physical Biology of the Cell
Rob Phillips et al.. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.