ReviewThe International journal of developmental biology2009
The emergence of patterning in lifes origin and evolution.
Review in The International journal of developmental biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Approaching the general quantification of functional information.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Cells as the first data scientists.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Searching for Life, Mindful of Lyfe's Possibilities.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Has Inositol Played Any Role in the Origin of Life?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
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- Pattern formation today.The International journal of developmental biology · 2009Review
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Abstract
Three principles guide natural pattern formation in both biological and non-living systems: (1) patterns form from interactions of numerous individual particles, or agents, such as sand grains, molecules, cells or organisms; (2) assemblages of agents can adopt combinatorially large numbers of different configurations; (3) observed patterns emerge through the selection of highly functional configurations. These three principles apply to numerous natural processes, including the origin of life and its subsequent evolution. The formalism of functional information, which relates the information content of a complex system to its degree of function, provides a quantitative approach to modeling the origin and evolution of patterning in living and nonliving systems.
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