Egg Shapes (IMAGE)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Egg Shapes

Caption

These are average egg shapes for each of 1400 species (black dots), illustrating variation in asymmetry and ellipticity.

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L. Mahadevan/Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley

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