Complex life forms may arise from electrical processes
Complex life forms may arise from electrical processes
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2010-06-24
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Elson Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2010, 7:26 http://www.tbiomed.com/content/7/1/26
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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.