Evolution and chaos. The genomic potential hypothesis and phase-state mathematics (Q809015)

I would like to give an account of evolution that is quite different from Darwin's view as well as from its twentieth century version, Neo- Darwinism. The basis of the new model called the ``genomic potential hypothesis'', is chemical determinism and the symbol is not the evolutionary tree, but as I shall argue in this paper, possibly a chaotic attractor. Yet the idea is built upon the same evidence, the same fossils and molecules that have also been incorporated into Darwinism; but herein lies the significant difference. Darwinism existed before molecular data were available and before genes had been discovered. The genomic potential hypothesis is a ``post-data'' model that was innocently built upon the new information and the results do not point to a random chance- oriented model but rather to a deterministic, yet unpredictable one. It is the ultimate purpose of this paper to examine how well the evolutionary process might be represented by a general chaotic attractor model and to provide a few parameters that might stimulate the mathematician among the readers to formulate a proper model in terms of phase-space mathematics.