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Spirals, Scalp Whorls and Skin Biomechanics: Nature’s Own Design For Expansion

2016-03-23

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This paper began as an exercise in curiosity – logarithmic spiral designs abound in nature ‐‐ in galaxies, flowers, 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 mechanical theory has long been postulated– the mechanical theory suggests that hair whorl patterning is determined by the tension on the ep...

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Literature Corpus work: 939c1534-6490-5aa1-bb75-b84a0a97ca8c
DOI: 10.1101/043992

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