EVOLUTION AND THE CHANGE IN ELECTROMAGNETIC STATE

We suggest that a single field vector Pi be used to characterize a liv ing organism, where Pi is the electromagnetic field due to the time-va rying electric charge distribution within the organism. This represent ation has interesting advantages over the traditional biological descr iption universally given in terms of visible characteristics. The Pi f ield is easily generalized to include species, and it leads naturally to a novel biological concept, that of the ''supergenome,'' covering a ll life as a whole. It is also consistent with an operational definiti on of the interaction between environment and genome, resulting in an alternate way of thinking about the evolutionary process. In this view , the meaning of environment is widened to include natural selection, and evolution is regarded as little more than the accommodation of liv ing things to physical laws.