The developmental process by which bilateral or paired pleural structures form during embryonic development.
From Greek 'dipleura' (bilateral structures), 'genesis' (origin, formation), describing how double-sided features are generated during growth.
Studying dipleurogenesis reveals why bilateral symmetry appeared in animal evolution—it was such an efficient design that most complex animals adopted it about 540 million years ago.
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