SYMMETRIES THROUGHOUT ORGANIC EVOLUTION

Authors
GARCIABELLIDO A
Citation
A. Garciabellido, SYMMETRIES THROUGHOUT ORGANIC EVOLUTION, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United Statesof America, 93(25), 1996, pp. 14229-14232
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United Statesof America → ACNP
ISSN journal
00278424
Volume
93
Issue
25
Year of publication
1996
Pages
14229 - 14232
Database
ISI
SICI code
0027-8424(1996)93:25<14229:STOE>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The biological realm has inherited symmetries from the physicochemical realm, but with the increasing complexity at higher phenomenological levels of life, some inherited symmetries are broken while novel symme tries appear, These symmetries are of two types, structural and operat ional, Biological novelties result from breaking operational symmetrie s, They are followed by acquisition of regularity and stability, in a recurrent process throughout complexity levels.