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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Lesser of Two Crab Claws, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss biological asymmetry in the natural world – including various examples of organisms in which side A doesn’t quite match up with side B.

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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

1:47.4

And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two of our series on A Symmetry in Life.

1:53.2

Now, in the last episode, we talked about the concept of bilateral symmetry. We're basically

1:59.6

all of the higher animals have body plans where the left and the right sides are more or less

2:05.9

a copy of one another. In other words, along one of the three dimensions of space, our bodies are

2:12.0

approximately mirrored, at least on the outside. Now, in most organisms, there are minor variations

2:19.2

on this type of symmetry, but occasionally, there are species with isolated but radical deviations

2:26.4

where like one feature on the outside of an otherwise mirror-flipped half of the body

2:33.0

is drastically different from what you find on the other side. Examples that came up last time

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