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noun
A pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, mathematics, natural-sciences, sciences
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History
Introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.
