Morphogenesis, the study of how forms arise in biology, has
attracted scientists for aeons. A century ago, D’Arcy Wentworth
Thompson crystallized this question in his opus On Growth and
Form (Thompson, 1917) using a series of biological examples and
geometric and physical analogies to ask how biological forms arise
during development and across evolution. In light of the advances in
molecular and cellular biology since then, a succinct modern view
of the question states: how do genes encode geometry?