On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, John Tyler Bonner

368 pages first pub 1917 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Why do living things and physical phenomena take the forms they do? Analyzing the mathematical and physical aspects of biological processes, this historic work, first published in 1917, has become renowned as well for the poetry of is descriptions.

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