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Golden Spirals and Scalp Whorls: Nature’s Own Design for Rapid Expansion

This paper documents what began as an exercise in curiosity—logarithmic spiral designs abound in nature—in galaxies, flowers, even pinecones, and on human scalps as whorls. Why are humans the only primates to have whorls on the scalp? Is the formation of scalp whorls mechanical or genetic? A mechani...

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Autor principal: Paul, Sharad P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5008782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27583520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162026