Classic of modern biology sets forth seminal "theory of transformation"--that evolution takes place in large-scale transformations of body as a whole. Over 500 photographs and drawings.
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Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also beco[...]
D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take.