We’re exploring the life and work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson - one of the first scientists to bring together the worlds of mathematics and biology in the quest to understand how living things are built.
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S5.01 How the zebra got its stripes: When maths and molecules collide
We find out how one of the world’s greatest minds revealed the maths behind the stripes on a zebra to the spots on a leopard, and even the pattern of bones in your own body.