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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Pantanal.
Data corrente: | 05/06/1995
Data da última atualização: | 05/04/2017
Autoria: | ZEGER, S. L.; HARLOW, S. D.
Título: | Mathematical models from laws of growth to tools for biologic analysis: fifty years of growth.
Ano de publicação: | 1987
Fonte/Imprenta: | Growth, v.51, p.1-21, 1987.
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | In this paper, we have attempted to provide the flavor of a half century of articles in Growth on mathematical models. We have focused on the changing context for models; from representing principles or laws of growth to being useful tools for addressing biologic questions. These 50 years have left us with not one or two but a box full of tools. We acknowledge all those who participated in this effort both advocates and critics of models. In closing, we want to place in perspective the role of size and sharpe in the biology of organisms. J. Z. Young, Professor of Anatomy at University College, London asked, Why do we want to study the shapes of living organisms? He answered: Study of the visible shape is an essential part of almost every biological study, but it is only a part. The anatomist has long discovered... that he must treat shape of each structure as a reflexion of the processes going on within it... It is important that no single approach to biological problems should obtain an undue ascendancy; that the study of shape should not outstrip that of process... We must avoid reviving tyhe view that the study of form in some way gives us a clear idea of what the organism is really like (Zuckerman, 1950).
Palavras-Chave: | Crescimento biologico; Growth; Mathematical model.
Thesagro: | Modelo Matemático.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Pantanal (CPAP)
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