Not formal research, but an interesting read on how specious a lot of the "math in nature" observations can be: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.h

Not formal research, but an interesting read on how specious a lot of the "math in nature" observations can be: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm I personally suspect that confirmation bias plays a huge rôle in this business.