Prof. Bruno MARESCA
Dipartimento di Farmacia
Sezione Biomedica
e-mail: [email protected]
tel. 089/96 97 58
Stanza #31, 4° Piano
Di Giacomo, R.; Schwartz, J. H.; Maresca, B. (2013). "The Origin of Metazoa: An Algorithmic View of Life". Biological Theory.doi:10.1007/s13752-013-0131-1
Cell recursion theory states that recursive functions running between dividing cells of a growing embryo is the basis of the mechanism to explain the emergence of complex forms in animals and plants because of an elaborated capacity of computation of their genomes. In The origin of Metazoa: an algorithmic view of life,[1] it has been proposed that duringembryogenesis, cells that contain an identical genome generate different instances of themselves just like recursivecomputer programs do.
Cell recursion theory states that recursive functions running between dividing cells of a growing embryo is the basis of the mechanism to explain the emergence of complex forms in animals and plants because of an elaborated capacity of computation of their genomes. In The origin of Metazoa: an algorithmic view of life,[1] it has been proposed that duringembryogenesis, cells that contain an identical genome generate different instances of themselves just like recursivecomputer programs do.