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Just about everything in the living world grows and all multicellular organisms develop forms. In one way or another development inducing structural organization appears as a general rule of living systems. So the genesis of spatial patterns constitutes a central problem in theoretical biology.1
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Boon, JP., Noullez, A. (1986). Development, Growth, and Form in Living Systems. In: Stanley, H.E., Ostrowsky, N. (eds) On Growth and Form. NATO ASI Series, vol 100. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5165-5_11
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