Abstract From the very beginning of their evolutionary history the primitive organisms have been confronted with the numerous constraints of external environment, and among them the mechanical ones, associated with the increase of intracellular osmotically‐driven hydrostatic pressure. In order to withstand it, the organisms had to develop a set of stress‐dependent reactions directed to the decrease of cell surface tension. Due to robustness of these reactions, they could led to the development of a surface pressure. The main idea of this paper is that such an initially adaptive reaction may create a basis for a large category of morphogenesis which result in the formation of structurally stable and biologically realistical shapes out of geometrically simple configurations. The attempt is made to embrace a whole set of stress‐dependent reactions by a principle of hyperrestoration, suggesting a tissue tendency to “hyperrestore” its initial mechanical stresses after any disturbances. The evolutionary formati...