1. You might expect more fine structure in these maps, especially for small numbers of clocks. It is there. The number of clocks can be counted by counting repeated features in the contour maps. But these features are smaller the greater the number of clocks so they are easily lost in the variability of data. Although they are plainly enough revealed by mathematical analysis, very fine-grained computation is required to map them out numerically. The maps I present in Figures 9 and 12 and in Chapter 8 are deliberately smoothed to emphasize only their gross qualitative structure.
2. This is the case with two identical siphon oscillators such as are commonly assumed to imitate the biochemical regulation of mitosis in blobs of Physarum (Scheffey, 1975, pers. comm.; see Chapter 22). In fact it is usual for the more realistically complicated oscillators taken up in Chapters 5 and 6 (e.g., van der Pol oscillators: Linkens, 1976, 1977) to have multiple stable modes of pairwise entrainment (Ruelle, 1972), and usual physiologically (Block and Page, 1980). See Box F of this chapter and Box A of Chapter 8.