Photons and evolution: Quantum mechanical processes modulate sexual differentiation

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 296-301

  Davis Jr , George E ^a   Lowell, Walter E ^a  

^a Psybernetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NUCLEOSOME; PHOTON; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR ENERGY;

EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 67649598017     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.03.028     Document Type: Article

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