1. Complex life forms may arise from electrical processes.
- Author
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Elson EC
- Subjects
- Germ Cells, Models, Biological, Thermodynamics, Electricity
- Abstract
There is still not an appealing and testable model to explain how single-celled organisms, usually following fusion of male and female gametes, proceed to grow and evolve into multi-cellular, complexly differentiated systems, a particular species following virtually an invariant and unique growth pattern. An intrinsic electrical oscillator, resembling the cardiac pacemaker, may explain the process. Highly auto-correlated, it could live independently of ordinary thermodynamic processes which mandate increasing disorder, and could coordinate growth and differentiation of organ anlage.
- Published
- 2010
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