How fluid dynamics and transport shaped the structure of our lungs in the course of evolution

Friday, October 4, 2013 - 07:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Two French physicists, Bernard Sapoval and Marcel Filoche from École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, suggest in a study published in European Physical Journal E how evolution has shaped our lungs through successive optimisations of physical parameters such as conservation of energy and speed of delivery.

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