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Jochen Fromm-3 on
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You have certainly heard of the Cambrian explosion.
It is used to describe the sudden appearance of a
huge variety of fossil organisms with hard skeletons
at the beginning of the Cambrian Period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_ExplosionWhat are the most plausible explanations you know?
If it is some form of strong emergence, there must be
a code behind it, a code which specifies the spatial
organization of the body and the body plan for complex
organisms with hard shells and skeletons.
Since the body is formed during the embryonic
development, it must be an embryonic development
code, a recipe for builing multicellular structures.
How does this code look like ? Is it similar to fractals
and iterated function systems (IFS) ? Is it more related
to the 4-symbol alphabet of the genetic code, to the
20-symbol protein alphabet, or more to cell types
(possibly attractors of genetic regulatory networks) ?
-J.