Throughout his long and fruitful career John Tyler Bonner has made great strides in understanding basic issues of embryology and developmental-evolutionary biology. Indeed, Bonner’s work on
The establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology owes a great debt to the work of John Tyler Bonner. Bonner’s studies of cellular slime molds have shed light on some of the big questions of biology including the origins of multicellularity and the nature of
In 1952 the article “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis” by the British mathematician and logician Alan M. Turing was published in
Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who lived in the early twentieth century. Among important contributions in the field of mathematics, computer science, and philosophy, he developed a mathematical model of morphogenesis. This model describing biological growth became fundamental for research on the process of embryo development.
