{"id":6124,"date":"2011-06-18T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2014-11-16T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T08:01:12","slug":"friday-math-movie-first-life-with-david-attenborough-oldest-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-first-life-with-david-attenborough-oldest-animals-6124","title":{"rendered":"Math movie: First Life with David Attenborough - Oldest Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Attenborough points out how early life forms - in this case \"proto-animals\" - made use of fractals as a logical design element. The animals look very fern-like.<\/p>\n<p>A proto-animal can be thought of as a well-developed plant - one that is almost an animal. It has soft cell walls (where a plant's cell walls are hard), and it relies on outside sources for food (rather than making food as plants do with photosynthesis).<\/p>\n<p>Fractals are produced by iterating complex numbers in special ways. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/complex-numbers\/fractals.php\">Fractals<\/a> for some background.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\" style=\"height:303px\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xux-uey6OEE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I've been a fan of Attenborough for years. I love his British-reserved (but bubbling, nevertheless) enthusiasm for all living creatures. I also like the way he interprets animal behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-first-life-with-david-attenborough-oldest-animals-6124\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"First Life Fractal\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/06\/first-life-fractal.jpg\" title=\"First Life Fractal\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Some of the earliest animals to appear used efficient fractal (or modular) shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}