The Mathematics of Growing Molluscan Shells (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

The Mathematics of Growing Molluscan Shells

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Caltech engineers have figured out a mathematical way to explain the puzzling reproducibility of molluscan shells—the animals' ability to make roughly the same shell, regardless of the challenges that an individual mollusk might face.

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Huan Liu/Caltech

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