The Divine Proportion and Life

The design of life is based on a "Golden Ruler™"

It has long been known that the Golden Section, or Divine Proportion, appears in certain proportions of living organisms.  In 1997, I began to wonder how universal this was and how far it could be applied.  I took a golden section of a line not just once, but many times, to form what I like to call the "golden ruler," shown as follows:

This appears in the proportions of many life forms:

The Golden Ruler™ can be expanded to a Golden Grid™

You can take the process another step further by creating a "Golden Grid," taking it from one dimension to two dimensions:

This approach can be used to explain the physical proportions of many life forms, but the most beautiful application is found in humans:

It appears that this "golden ruler" is a common, if not universal, metric in the design of living organisms.

Try it on the Do It Yourself page!