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Sir D'Arcy W. Thompson CB FRS FRSE (1860-1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist, he is mainly remembered as the author of ON GROWTH AND FORM, an influential work of striking originality and elegance.
The central theme of ON GROWTH AND FORM is that biologists of its author's day overemphasized evolution as the fundamental determinant of the form and structure of living organisms, and under-emphasized the roles of physical laws and mechanics.
Peter Medawar who was the 1960 Nobel Laureate in Medicine called ON GROWTH AND FORM "the finest work of literature in all the annals of science that have been recorded in the English tongue."
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D'Arcy Thompson's writing, hailed as 'good literature as well as good science; a discourse on science as though it were a humanity.' This historic work, has become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions.
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John Tyler Bonner is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. His books include "The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Molds" and "Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales" (both Princeton).
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- PublisherStellar Editions
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 198781763X
- ISBN 13 9781987817638
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages414
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