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praptakyesterday at 6:10 PM1 replyview on HN

A complex three dimensional organism self-assembling from a single cell is 100% magic, especially given how resilient it is to disruption. You can kill one of the two cells produced by the first division and still get a fully formed organism (that's one of the actual early experiments in morphogenesis theory).


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kjkjadksjyesterday at 6:32 PM

Concentration gradients layered on concentration gradients layered on concentration gradients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_gene

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