Alan Turing first described
how regular patterns found in living things, such as the stripes of
zebras, appear.A collaborative study
between IFISC and Princeton University proposes an alternative
mechanism to explain this pattern formation.
Understanding how regular shapes (patterns) are generated in nature
is a key question, as they have a major influence on the
functionality, resilience and properties of organisms and their
aggregations. Structures as diverse as the patterns on an insect
s...
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