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Why are biological structures shaped or organized like they are? For example, why is the brain in the head, why is the cortex folded, why are there cortical areas, why are neurons and arteries shaped like they are, and why do animals have as many limbs as they do? Many aspects of morphology can be usefully treated as networks, including all the examples just mentioned. In this chapter I introduce concepts from network theory, or graph theory, and discuss how we can use these ideas to frame questions and discover principles governing brain and body networks.
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Changizi, M.A. (2003). Scaling in Nervous Networks. In: The Brain from 25,000 Feet. Synthese Library, vol 317. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0293-5_1
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