Transcript -- D’Arcy Thompson, Structuralism and the Shape of Life

Patterns of Life - for iPod/iPhone by Kyren Burns

Nov 26, 2014Education

Transcript -- If evolution is all about random mutations, why do the same patterns keep cropping up in the natural world? Coincidence? Not according to parrot-wielding eccentric, Sir D’Arcy Thompson. He realised that liv...

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