“There is a war going on between simplicity and complexity, and we live right at the edge of it.”
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Luís Seoane, complex systems researcher at Spain’s Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, on evolution’s tendency for symmetry. The reason, researchers argue in a
new paper, is that the instructions to produce symmetry are easier to embed in genetic code and follow. “These simple, symmetrical building blocks help make sense of [the universe’s] complexity,” says Seoane.
