title: [Scale Relativity Theory in living beings morphogenesis: fratal, determinism and chance].
abstract: The Scale Relativity Theory has many biological applications from linear to non-linear and, from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics. Self-similar laws have been used as model for the description of a huge number of biological systems. Theses laws may explain the origin of basal life structures. Log-periodic behaviors of acceleration or deceleration can be applied to branching macroevolution, to the time sequences of major evolutionary leaps. The existence of such a law does not mean that the role of chance in evolution is reduced, but instead that randomness and contingency may occur within a framework which may itself be structured in a partly statistical way. The scale relativity theory can open new perspectives in evolution.
authors.affiliation: CNRS, université de Bourgogne, 6, boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France. jean.chaline@orange.fr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chaline
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D017709:Fractals; D009024:Morphogenesis / Q000502:physiology*; D000069497:Origin of Life