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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 35, Number 3, pages 259-262 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2024_3_259

SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY IN HUMANS

Gianfranco Natale

Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery; Museum of Human Anatomy “Filippo Civinini”, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Email: gianfranco.natale@unipi.it

Abstract: The notion of symmetry in biological sciences is mostly used to describe body shapes. Several kinds of molecules are constituents of living beings. In this respect, molecular symmetry is an important issue in biochemistry, as well. For this reason, symmetry in humans can be investigated at least at two principal levels: 1) microscopic (molecular and cellular) level, and 2) macroscopic level

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