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RARE SYMMETRY. "If you think this is hard to swallow, let me assure you that the vast majority of snow crystals are not very symmetrical. Don't be fooled by the pictures -- irregular crystals (see the Guide to Snowflakes) are by far the most common type. If you don't believe me, just take a look for yourself next time it snows. Near-perfect, symmetrical snow crystals are fun to look at, but they are not common." https://lnkd.in/dhNbMdR View in LinkedIn

SIMILAR SHAPES. "What synchronizes the growth of the six arms? Nothing. The six arms of a snow crystal all grow independently, as described in the previous section. But since they grow under the same randomly changing conditions, all six end up with similar shapes." https://lnkd.in/dhNbMdR View in LinkedIn

EXPLANATION. "It's strength comes from a simple, sound architectural formation, based on the angles of the oxygen nucleus. It also comes from the change to univalent bonds that occurs when water freezes. When these bonds are formed, water molecules are pushed out of the way so the structure has room to form. And the crystalized structure of all ice is more open than the arrangement of liquid water. This is why water has the unusual property of expanding by about 10 percent when it freezes." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/15/804812/- View in LinkedIn

RESEMBLANCE. "The multicellular life cycle that evolved in our system bears some similarity to one of the most distant relatives of Volvox within the colonial volvocine algae." https://lnkd.in/dU8HRX5 View in LinkedIn

SNOWFLAKES AND GLACIERS. "In regular ice, like you have in your freezer -- hexagonal type 1, the formation of water molecules is not as open as in snow. It's more tightly packed, as if you folded a flat hexagon in a weird way. And joined those together in a tighter formation. This structure is more dense and stronger than a snowflake structure." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/15/804812/- View in LinkedIn

CLUSTER FORMATION. "Multicellular C. reinhardtii display a novel two-stage life cycle in which motile unicellular propagules disperse shortly after transfer to fresh medium, then undergo successive rounds of mitosis to form nonmotile, multicellular clusters bound by an extracellular matrix." https://lnkd.in/dU8HRX5 View in LinkedIn

ITERATIVE HEXAGONS. "Different temperatures create different patterns, but they are all based on hexagonal geometry. These many different forms have become named things like: fernlike, dendritic, stellar, plate, columnar." http://thesmarthappyproject.com/hexagon-geometry-snowflake/ View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY SALTATIONS. "Each such transition is typically viewed as marking a drastic jump in complexity: cells are much more complex than any of their individual constituents (i.e. genes or proteins), eukaryotes are more complex than prokaryotes, multicellular more complex than unicellular organisms, and human societies more complex than individuals." https://lnkd.in/dTS7dFy View in LinkedIn

LOSS OF INDEPENDENT REPRODUCTION. "A hallmark of many of these transitions is that entities which had been capable of independent replication prior to the transition can subsequently only replicate as part of a larger reproductive whole (Szathmáry and Maynard Smith)." https://lnkd.in/dTS7dFy View in LinkedIn

LOSS OF INDEPENDENT REPRODUCTION. "A hallmark of many of these transitions is that entities which had been capable of independent replication prior to the transition can subsequently only replicate as part of a larger reproductive whole (Szathmáry and Maynard Smith)." https://lnkd.in/dTS7dFy View in LinkedIn