The New Law of Nature: Work Smarter, Not Harder

The study revealed that biology leans toward symmetry because these symmetrical patterns are simply simpler. The researchers studied this principle in both how proteins assemble and how r na folds for ten years, and they continuously found that simpler shapes appeared more often. One of the entists from the study compared it to giving instructions to someone for tiling a floor. It would be much easier for them to put down tiles in simple and identical rows rather than create complex patterns all across the floor.

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