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> Nothing to do with shells.

* except that no two organic organisms are alike, in the same way.

> It has been lore that: No two snowflakes are alike. I don't belive it. How do we know that a snowflake that falls in Cleveland doesn't have its look-a-like in Colorado---or Geneva---or Fairbanks.

* "No two snoeflakes are alike" is just a hyperbolic way of saying that
complex snowflakes are highly variable. see
http://snowflakebentley.com/  Many snowflakes are simple hexagonal
plates, say, and are of identical shape by definition.

> Who looks at snowflake shapes?

* meterological phusicists. see
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/ which gives an overview
of snowflakes.

fred.
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