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cheers.
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> From: Scott Chase
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:31 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: Coordinated behavior among birds, fish, and insects
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> >From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> >Subject: RE: Coordinated behavior among birds, fish, and insects
> >Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:43:41 +0100
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> > <In _A New Science of Life_ (1995/1981. Park Street Press.
> >Rochester,
> > > Vermont) Sheldrake talks about slime molds (see chapter 2). Scott
> >Gilbert
> > > also discusses the slime mold in his text _Developmental Biology_
> (1997.
> > > Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, Massachusetts). Interesting
> stuff.>
> > >
> > Cheers, Scott......... What do they say? (sorry feeling lazy
> today!
> >Tell me to bugger off if you like!)
> >
> >
> Scott Gilbert offers a lot of scary molecular detail in his text. I doubt
> I
> could do it justice especially without visual aids. The spiral cAMP
> (cyclic
> adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate) waves are pretty cool looking. I could
> imagine them being projected on a screen at some high energy music dance
> rave. Gilbert goes on about the mathematics for this being similar to that
>
> for spiral galaxies. Not being a cosmologist or astrophysicist or
> mathematician, I'll take his word for it. There's discussion of the life
> cycle and aggregation and differentiation and some of the chemicals
> involved. There are parts in the whole complex mess I can't quite "grok"
> to
> use Joe's term. The part where cell adhesion molecules are introduced is
> crucial as it ties into multicellular development in other organisms.
>
> On Gilbert's zygote.swarthmore.edu website there are two informative nodes
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> with these URL's
>
> http://dictybase.org/dicty.html
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> http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/intro4.html
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