The morphogenesis is the installation of the Organe S which are responsible for the structure of the living beings.

Definitions

1. Development process of the forms of an organization during the Embryogenesis;
2. Formation process of the relief of the Earth's crust, its study makes it possible to include/understand the origin and façonnement forms of relief (see also Géomorphologie, Géomorphogenèse or Glyptogenèse);
3. Creative process of a whole of urban forms (theory of urban morphogenesis).

References

• Peter S. Stevens - “ forms in nature ” (1978), ED. threshold, coll Open Science .
• Rene Thom - “ structural Stability and morphogenesis ” (1972, 2nd ED. review, corrected and increased), InterEditions, Paris

See too

• animal Morphogenesis
• vegetable Morphogenesis
• Phylogenesis
• Ontogenesis
• Carl von Baer