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... called homeostasis , ensuring the continuation of a given type of change called homeorhesis , a word which means preserving a flow . One can picture a homeorhetic system in terms of an attractor surface ( which again is located in a ...
... called homeostasis , ensuring the continuation of a given type of change called homeorhesis , a word which means preserving a flow . One can picture a homeorhetic system in terms of an attractor surface ( which again is located in a ...
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... called a disproof . For instance , Spemann discovered a part of an early embryo of the newt , which he called the organization centre , because it induced the formation of the body of the embryo around it ; and he supposed that this ...
... called a disproof . For instance , Spemann discovered a part of an early embryo of the newt , which he called the organization centre , because it induced the formation of the body of the embryo around it ; and he supposed that this ...
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... called descriptive models . Or , if they contain time - dependent variables , they may be used to predict what happens at some future time . These are called predictive models . Manipulation of the variables in a model , or simulation ...
... called descriptive models . Or , if they contain time - dependent variables , they may be used to predict what happens at some future time . These are called predictive models . Manipulation of the variables in a model , or simulation ...
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