Notes

Chapter 8: Implications for Everyday Systems


Section 6: Growth of Plants and Animals

Animal behavior Antlers [Biological] self-assembly Bones Branching in animals Branching in plants Discrete folding [in biological growth] Embryo development General constraints on growth Growth in plants History of branching models History of embryology History of phyllotaxis History [of shell models] History [of theories of biological form] Implementation [of branching model] Implementation [of phyllotaxis model] Intrinsically defined curves Leaf shapes Locally isotropic growth Mathematical properties [of branching model] Mathematics of phyllotaxis [Mollusc] shell model [Mollusc] shells Multidimensional generalizations [of intrinsically defined curves] Observed phyllotaxis Parameter space sets Parametrizations of [biological] growth Pollen Projections of [phyllotaxis] patterns Radiolarians Schemes for [biological] growth Self-limiting growth Shapes of [biological] cells Simple geometries [in branching model] Symmetries [in biological systems] Tumors

From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]