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How animals get their stripes and spots
Animal stripes and spots might look decorative, but they’re the result of deeply complex biological processes that begin long ...
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Impressive patterns that appear in animals, plants, and ecosystems
Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.
In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...
For many decades now, scientists and biologists have been trying to understand how the mesmerising patterns in animal coats emerge from a group of underdeveloped cells. The British mathematician Alan ...
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