Morphogenesis is the process by which multi-celled life develops its shape as it grows, and Turing’s 1951 paper The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis explored how non-uniform biological characteristics (like stripes on a zebra) could arise out of a uniform starting state in the womb. Turing was fascinated his entire life by the structure of plant petals and seeds (phyllotaxis), and how they seemed to adhere to the Fibonacci sequence — especially when it came to sunflowers.
