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Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

Inspired by the theories of D’Arcy Thompson, scientists combined theoretical and experimental approaches to establish ‘mechanotypes’ as the physical links between genes and body shapes. Pictured are ...