Related Content
Search Google Scholar for:
More Information
Related Jobs from ScienceCareers
|
|
Science 4 June 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5420, pp. 1627 - 1628
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5420.1627
|
|
Books
NATURAL SCIENCES:
Patterns in Nature--No Assembly Required?
A review by P. Dullemeijer
The Self-Made Tapestry Pattern Formation in Nature
Philip Ball
Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. 295 pp. $37.50, £18.99. ISBN 0-19-850244-3. Paper, £8.99, ISBN 0-19-850243-5.
In this profusely illustrated book, Ball explains how self-organization--involving simple, local interactions among components--can produce similar natural patterns and forms in settings that seem completely unrelated. He draws on examples ranging from bacteria, through shells, trees, dunes, and urban sprawl, to the atmosphere of Jupiter.
The author is in the Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Theoretical Biology Section, van der Klaauw Laboratory, Kaiserstraat 63, 2311 GP Leiden, the Netherlands.
Read the Full Text
|
|
