Shell Mathematics are Biologically Meaningful (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Shell Mathematics are Biologically Meaningful

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Shells of species within the same class (grouped here by color) have nearly the same value of λ, a scaling factor that the researchers found determines how quickly a molluscan shell expands.

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Huan Liu/Caltech

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