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Structural stability and morphogenesis by Rene Thom in 1972

1. Introduction

2. Form and structural stability

3. structural stability in mathematics

4. Kinematic of forms; Catastrophes

5. Elementary catastrophes on \[\mathbb{R}^4\] associated with conflicts of regimes

6. General morphology

7. The dynamic of forms

8. Biology and topology

9. Local models in embryology

10. Global models for a living being (metazoa)

11. Models in ultrastructure

12. The basic problems of biology

13. From animal to man: thought and language

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