MIT Study Reveals Nature's Self-Organizing Modularity from Brain Cells to Ecosystems
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MIT Study Reveals Nature's Self-Organizing Modularity from Brain Cells to Ecosystems
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Look around, and you’ll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the brain organizes into regions. Nature loves modularity — a limited number of self-contained units that combine in different ways to perform many functions. But how does this organization arise? Does it follow a detailed genetic blueprint, or can these structures emerge on their own? A new study from MIT suggests a surprising answer.
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11 March 25