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Biological process demonstrating morphogenetic memory and goal-directed anatomical problem-solving; salamanders regrow exact organs and stop when correct structure is complete.
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- Pattern Memoryassociated_withStored representation of correct anatomical goal, stable yet rewritable by physiological experience; basis for morphospace navigation.
- Model organism demonstrating regeneration, behavioral memory imprinting on new brains, and rewritable bioelectric pattern memory; key example of basal cognition.
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- Medical field that will confront philosophical problems of personal identity and agency when deploying stem cell therapies.
- A process that heals the world by generating living structure, synonymous with living process.
- Stochastic swapping of cell pairs in the genome to create variation.
- Subtle variation and detail, as in pots of flowers, that brings life to a place.
- The capacity of a few instructed cells to recruit neighbors to complete a morphogenetic task, observed in ectopic eye induction.
- Property of embryos to achieve invariant species-specific morphology despite drastic perturbations and abnormal starting conditions, revealing goal-directed cellular coordination.
- The process of increase and differentiation that morphogenesis orchestrates, whether in embryo or city.