On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...
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Ancient Mesopotamian pottery shows that people understood symmetry and division 4,000 years before the Sumerians invented numbers
Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in 8, ...
The sunflower family tree revealed that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, among the members of this large plant family, according to a new ...
Figure 4) Small flowers with four petals inside black squares of a checkerboard pattern Figure 5 Small flowers with four petals in various compositions Figure 7) A meticulously executed drawing of a ...
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