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In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of modern leaf morphologies.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025

As the researchers report in the journal Physical Review X, their results show that hexagonal morphologies -- in other words, six-sided structures -- such as molecules with six binding sites are ideal for self-assembly.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

We can select and generate target morphologies by design.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

Once you start introducing these little chemical factories — that's what a bacterium is, a tiny, little chemical factory — there's only three morphologies.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

From this it follows that broadly similar morphologies must have been reached by unrelated languages, independently and frequently.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward