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What does my left hand know?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Arnold Burgen
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Abstract

Tiger, tiger burning bright

In the forests of the night

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame your fearful symmetry

Symmetry seems to be a desirable property, yet wherever we look we find asymmetry. This paper explores the presence and nature of asymmetry in biological systems.

Type
Erasmus Lecture
Information
European Review , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 53 - 57
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1999

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