Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nonrepresentational form or pattern that resembles a living organism in shape or appearance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A decorative form representing a living being or a part of a living being: opposed to *skeuomorph.
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- noun Any
non-representational form based on theshape orappearance of a livingorganism
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dawkins came up with it as an analogy to demonstrate the power of cumulative selection in his 1986 book "The Blind Watchmaker" It is odd that his biomorph programs haven't achieved the same notoriety.
The Weasel Thread 2009
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Once he had solved the difficult problem of programming a rich repertoire of mathematical distortions of the ‘rubber’, it was then a relatively simple task for him to incorporate this mathematical wizardry into a biomorph-style artificial selection program, similar to my own ‘biomorph’ programs, here described in Chapter 2.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In the biomorph, arthromorph and conchomorph programs, we have the computer equivalent of an embryological process – three different embryological processes, all in their different ways biologically plausible.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Once he had solved the difficult problem of programming a rich repertoire of mathematical distortions of the ‘rubber’, it was then a relatively simple task for him to incorporate this mathematical wizardry into a biomorph-style artificial selection program, similar to my own ‘biomorph’ programs, here described in Chapter 2.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The embryology of a biomorph on the screen is the process by which its ‘genes’ – those numerical values – influence its shape.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The embryology of a biomorph on the screen is the process by which its ‘genes’ – those numerical values – influence its shape.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In the biomorph, arthromorph and conchomorph programs, we have the computer equivalent of an embryological process – three different embryological processes, all in their different ways biologically plausible.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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