Quantitative approaches are used increasingly in evolutionary developmental biology ('evo-devo'). In particular, geometric morphometrics is widely used to quantify the shape of organisms or their ...

Across the animal kingdom, many species are covered in simple, solid colors, while others display patterns that seem random and chaotic. But some animals seem to follow the rules of mathematics, ...

Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...

Biological tissues exhibit two contradictory properties: they have a robust architecture that is required for their maintenance and resistance to stress, and they can be extensively remodelled during ...