How Plants Grow like Human Brains (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

How Plants Grow like Human Brains

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Illustration represents how plants use the same rules to grow under widely different conditions (for example, cloudy versus sunny), and that the density of branches in space follows a Gaussian ('bell curve') distribution, which is also true of neuronal branches in the brain.

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