12 Citations
Complexity: Decoding deep similarities
- HistoryNature
- 2017
Geoffrey West's opus on the laws that lurk in organisms, cities and companies is applauded by Philip Ball.
Deformations and smile: 100 years of D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form
- HistorySignificance
- 2018
A century ago, a Scottish biologist published ideas that would be built on generations later by those working in the field of statistical shape analysis. Kanti V. Mardia, Fred L. Bookstein, Balvinder…
Beyond D'Arcy Thompson: Future challenges for quantitative biology
- EducationMechanisms of Development
- 2017
Imitating nature: Analogy and experiment in D'Arcy Thompson's Science of Form.
- PhysicsStudies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences
- 2019
D’Arcy W. Thompson’s Cartesian transformations: a critical evaluation
- BiologyZoomorphology
- 2020
This work uses the example of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s transformation of crab carapaces to test to what degree the transformation of grids, landmarks, and shapes result in congruent images.
From Gregor Mendel to Eric Davidson: Mathematical Models and Basic Principles in Biology
- BiologyJ. Comput. Biol.
- 2019
It is argued that the inductive and hypothetico-deductive experimental methodologies have remained fundamentally important as long as causal-mechanistic explanations of complex systems are pursued.
On plant growth and form.
- Environmental ScienceThe New phytologist
- 2017
The year 2017 is the centenary of the publication of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s classic of biological literature, On growth and form, which remains a foundational text for what these days is known as ‘evo-devo’ – the modern synthesis of evolution, developmental biology and genetics.
Do bumblebees have signatures? Demonstrating the existence of a speed-curvature power law in Bombus terrestris locomotion patterns
- BiologyPloS one
- 2020
We report the discovery that Bombus terrestris audax (Buff-tailed bumblebee) locomotor trajectories adhere to a speed-curvature power law relationship which has previously been found in humans,…
DNA Nanotechnology as an Emerging Tool to Study Mechanotransduction in Living Systems.
- Biology, ChemistrySmall
- 2019
Fundamental aspects of force-induced melting of DNA hairpins and duplexes are described and applications of these probes in studying immune receptor signaling, including the T cell receptor and B cell receptor, as well as Notch and integrin signaling are discussed.
Evolution, kidney development, and chronic kidney disease.
- Biology, MedicineSeminars in cell & developmental biology
- 2019