eli5: Why is the Fibonacci spiral found everywhere?

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It’s found in commonly through nature and often in design (whether intended or by coincidence).
Was wondering if anyone knew exactly why it was so common especially in nature.

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The Fibonacci spiral does not actually appear in nature much at all.
Almost all spirals in nature are Archimedean or logarithmic.

The Fibonacci spiral is made of circle segments every quarter turn, which is something that nature is really bad at doing.

That said, numbers from the Fibonacci sequence can sometimes be found in nature, as well as the “Golden Ratio”, a number that is associated with Fibonacci sequence.

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