WANG, Ping/M; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta: The Holographic Repetition Law: A Possible Principle in Organism Evolution?

As any piece of a holograph may represent the whole image, some parts in the brain have been identified that spatially correspond with different areas of the body, and thousands of years of experience with acupuncture have shown that acupuncture points on the ears, face, or hands also form the pattern that corresponds to the body. Also, Haeckel (1879) suggested that repetition occurred in the temporal relationships between an individual body�s development and the entire history of evolution. We hypothesized that the spatial relationship between specific regions and the whole body exists in various organisms and is temporally regulated in a repetition manner during evolution. In this study, we showed several examples that this spatial relationship widely existed in animals and plants. For example, a single peacock feather has shades of color in spatial correspondence with the shades of color of its entire plumage. We also found that the historical process of evolution of the whole body is repeated by the appearance and development of certain internal tissues and organs within the body. For example, each segment of insect�s body contains an analogous anatomic structure, which is similar to the characteristics of the whole body when it was not divided into segments before evolution. Based on these findings, we suggested the development of the Bio-Holographic Repetition law, which states that 1.) The relative independent parts of the body, such as the head and ears in an animal, spatially correspond to the whole body and 2.) Close spatial correspondence of these parts with the whole body may depend on when they differentiated from the body during evolution, i.e. the later the independent parts appear on the body, the more alike they are to the present day body and the more completely and exactly they will reflect the character of the entire body. If this hypothesis is proved, this would not only lead to further understanding of the mechanism of acupuncture, but it may also lead to new research about the basic laws governing the development of life.