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Books Phenomenological Models in the Age of Systems Biology The Shaping of Life: The Generation of Biological Pattern. Lionel G. Harrison. Cambridge University Press, 2011. 272 pp., illus. $99.00 (ISBN 9780521553506 cloth). challenge of building the bridge was daunting: Trying to cross disciplinary boundaries, one is beset with many perils. Some of these are rather trivial things to do with word usage.… But crossing boundaries becomes much more difficult when it involves [the] rapid and fluent comprehension of a new set of principles— whether these are ones that have to be expressed in mathematical terms or… by using the panoply of terminology of molecular genetics. (pp. 41–42) the know will emerge knowing essentially nothing more. Here and elsewhere (pp. 64, 70, 86), Harrison misses an opportunity to teach about dimensional analysis and dimensionless numbers. The classical diffusion equation is not given until page 111, and it too is presented with little explanation. Harrison began his work in developmental biology as he began this book—by watching plants grow. He worked with Patrick von Aderkas studying developing somatic embryos of hybrid larch. In a later chapter, he shows that he knew his Acetabularia, and he subsequently provides superb summaries of

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Phenomenological Models in the Age of Systems Biology

BioScience , Volume 62 (2)
University of California Press – Feb 1, 2012

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  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Copyright © 2012 by American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions Web site at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp .
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  • ISSN 0006-3568
  • eISSN 1525-3244
  • D.O.I. 10.1525/bio.2012.62.2.14
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