12 Fenced-off and fenced-in equilibriums: Outside and inside boundaries and fences
One noteworthy way biologists have been looking at living things has been in terms of the forms (morphology) and functions (physiology) that living things exhibit. Especially it is in terms of their anatomy or morphology that we observe living organisms. We find and see membranes that separate an outside from what exists inside of them. We see the forms of all sorts of anatomical structures with boundaries. And it is in morphological structures that we find that what is living (what functions physiologically) and that hides behind these fences. What is living is carrying on functions that separate what is living on the inside from its environmental ecology on the ...
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