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work_rx3tu3gydrdi3de2fqvpggyb7a	Guojun Sheng	Morphogenesis: Eternal truth or ephemeral beauty	2016	1	.pdf	application/pdf	433	53	58	Morphogenesis: eternal truth or ephemeral beauty Morphogenesis: eternal truth or ephemeral beauty The construction and destruction of the sand mandala (A) in Tibetan Buddhism symbolizes both the beauty of form and the fleeting nature of its existence. edition of his seminal 1917 book "On Growth and Form", used developmental biology in the century since "On Growth and Have we gotten closer to unraveling the universal logic of morphogenesis, like the metaphysical truth in Buddhism or mathematical beauty in Thompson's book? of animal morphogenesis. The sand mandala, with But biology is not religion, and animal morphogenesis may merely be a manifestation of functional contingency, beholden only to the logic of chance Between us and our favorite model systems, there may be no eternal truth but ephemeral beauty. *Correspondence to: sheng@kumamoto-u.ac.jp or natasza.kurpios@cornell. Article is online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy. VC 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS 245:189, 2016	./cache/work_rx3tu3gydrdi3de2fqvpggyb7a.pdf	./txt/work_rx3tu3gydrdi3de2fqvpggyb7a.txt