title: Complex life forms may arise from electrical processes.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. hfelson1@msn.com
authors.forename: Edward C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Elson
mesh_terms: D004560:Electricity; D005854:Germ Cells; D008954:Models, Biological; D013816:Thermodynamics