Research
Complex life forms may arise from electrical processes
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2010, 7:26 doi:10.1186/1742-4682-7-26
Published: 24 June 2010Abstract
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.
