Life is always defying the boundaries of biology, or at least of biology textbooks. You don’t have to look far to find instances where books from other fields become relevant. Flip open a physics book, say, and you might find some especially pertinent examples in the chapter on magnetism.
There you’ll learn that if you break a bar magnet in two, you get two magnets — the new ends created by the break just become new poles.
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