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Adaptive ramification: Comparing models for biological, economical, and conceptual organization

Adaptive ramification: Comparing models for biological, economical, and conceptual organization Acta Biotheoretica 38: 243-255, 1990. © 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Printed in the Netherlands. ADAPTIVE RAMIFICATION: COMPARING MODELS FOR BIOLOGICAL, ECONOMICAL, AND CONCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION Y.L. Kergosien Math6matiques, Bat. 425, Universit~ Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay Cedex 1. INTRODUCTION Ramification is the most strikingly ubiquitous pattern to be observed in the morphogenesis of higher plants, and one also finds it when studying organization phenomena in many other fields of biology, as well as in physics and economics. Despite different detailed underlying mechanisms for the formation of these structures, it is tempting to try to explain this ubiquity. Optimality is certainly a property that one would want to invoke first as a common feature of these structures. But the fact that ramification occurs in fields such as physics, where an evolutionary selection of optimal achieved structures cannot be called upon, calls for a search in terms of ontogenetic mechanisms. It would be interesting to show that these ramifying patterns can be the common epigenetic result of a whole class of different local interaction rules. In a second study, one could investigate how optimal these structures really are, and, for instance, how the simple character of these local rules determines global optimal, or near http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Biotheoretica Springer Journals

Adaptive ramification: Comparing models for biological, economical, and conceptual organization

Acta Biotheoretica , Volume 38 (4) – May 3, 2004

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Philosophy; Philosophy of Biology; Evolutionary Biology
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0001-5342
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Acta Biotheoretica 38: 243-255, 1990. © 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Printed in the Netherlands. ADAPTIVE RAMIFICATION: COMPARING MODELS FOR BIOLOGICAL, ECONOMICAL, AND CONCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION Y.L. Kergosien Math6matiques, Bat. 425, Universit~ Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay Cedex 1. INTRODUCTION Ramification is the most strikingly ubiquitous pattern to be observed in the morphogenesis of higher plants, and one also finds it when studying organization phenomena in many other fields of biology, as well as in physics and economics. Despite different detailed underlying mechanisms for the formation of these structures, it is tempting to try to explain this ubiquity. Optimality is certainly a property that one would want to invoke first as a common feature of these structures. But the fact that ramification occurs in fields such as physics, where an evolutionary selection of optimal achieved structures cannot be called upon, calls for a search in terms of ontogenetic mechanisms. It would be interesting to show that these ramifying patterns can be the common epigenetic result of a whole class of different local interaction rules. In a second study, one could investigate how optimal these structures really are, and, for instance, how the simple character of these local rules determines global optimal, or near

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