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MC ESCHER GALLERY. http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/ View in LinkedIn

PLAYFUL ABSURDITY. "I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties." (MC Escher). https://lnkd.in/dAXs8BQ View in LinkedIn

MC ESCHER. "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement...let me go upstairs and check." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/m_c_escher.html View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE features the brilliant, eccentric, and inspired Dutch graphic artist, MC Escher (1998-1972). He was deeply interested in the nature of space, symmetry, illusion and frequently embodied these themes in images of natural forms and creatures. He had no mathematical training but his work was inspired by mathematics and nature. View in LinkedIn

TOUGH NUT. "A fundamental problem in biology is the evolutionary transition from single cells to multicellular life forms. During this transition the unit of selection shifts from individual cells to groups of cooperating cells." https://lnkd.in/dM8VCEC View in LinkedIn

GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE. "Evolutionary changes in organismal traits may occur either gradually or suddenly. However, until recently, there has been little direct information about how phenotypic changes are related to the rate and the nature of the underlying genotypic changes." https://lnkd.in/dPsaKRf View in LinkedIn

PART TYPE DRAIN. "In other words, in hierarchical transitions, there is a drain on numbers of part types at the lower level." http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1554/0014-3820(2002)056%5B0441:ACDOCI%5D2.0.CO%3B2 View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION AS UNPREDICTABLE. "Accidents of history may even determine the survival or extinction of entire lineages, given the capricious and sudden nature of some environmental changes. Stephen Jay Gould maintained that these historical contingencies make evolution largely unpredictable." http://www.pnas.org/content/105/23/7899.full View in LinkedIn

PLATONIC SOLIDS. "There are only five polyhedra with exactly similar polygonal faces, and they are called the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, with four triangular faces; the cube, with six square faces; the octahedron, with eight triangular faces; the dodecahedron, with twelve pentagonal faces; and the icosahedron, with twenty triangular faces." These were an artistic foundation for MCE. https://lnkd.in/d_HZ4K8 View in LinkedIn

LOST BETWEEN THE CRACKS. "Natural selection works systematically to adapt populations to their prevailing environments. However, selection requires heritable variation generated by random mutation, and even beneficial mutations may be lost by random drift." https://lnkd.in/dbxjmju View in LinkedIn