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Evolving the program for a cell: from French flags to Boolean circuits
On Growth, Form and Computers, Academic Press, (октября 2003)
Аннотация
Introduction
The development of an entire organism from a single
cell is one of the most profound and awe inspiring
phenomena in the whole of the natural world. The
complexity of living systems itself dwarfs anything
that man has produced. This is all the more the case
for the processes that lead to these intricate systems.
In each phase of the development of a multi-cellular
being, this living system has to survive, whether
stand-alone or supported by various structures and
processes provided by other living systems. Organisms
construct themselves, out of humble single-celled
beginnings, riding waves of interaction between the
information residing in their genomes inherited from
the evolutionary past of their species via their
progenitors and the resources of their environment.
