Complex life forms may arise from electrical processes
dc.contributor.author | Elson, Edward C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-10T21:23:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-10T21:23:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-06-24 | |
dc.description.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. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Elson Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2010, 7:26 http://www.tbiomed.com/content/7/1/26 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/13369 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | A. James Clark School of Engineering | en_us |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Electrical & Computer Engineering | en_us |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_us |
dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, MD) | en_us |
dc.subject | intrinsic electrical oscillator | en_US |
dc.title | Complex life forms may arise from electrical processes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |