It's not just the fingerprints. Entire organs may grow according to the elegant mathematics of reaction diffusion systems. Not to mention metal alloys, igneous

It's not just the fingerprints. Entire organs may grow according to the elegant mathematics of reaction diffusion systems. Not to mention metal alloys, igneous rocks, suns, galaxies, and so on... A mathematical theory proposed by Alan Turing in 1952 can explain the formation of fingers http://phys.org/news/2014-07-mathematical-theory-alan-turing-formation.html http://phys.org/news/2014-07-mathematical-theory-alan-turing...