Friday, August 17, 2012

Prime natural as evidenced in biological life

Watching 'Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman' which discussed alien communication through prime numbers which discussed the possibility through genomics.  Interestingly enough I would suggest the gestation cycle of the Magicicada which is found to be in prime number cycles 13 and 17 years.  It were theorized natural selection produced such variation on the basis of survival advantages relative to predators whose gestation maximums were non prime variants.  Interestingly enough while this sort of gestation cycle I would guess is extremely rare, it does give natural advantages in terms of evolution.

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