Chaos is associated with stochasticity, complex, irregular motion, etc. It has some peculiar properties such as ergodicity, highly initial value sensitivity, non-periodicity and long-term unpredictability. These pseudo random features lead chaotic systems to enormous applications such as random number generator, image encryption and secure communication. In general, the concept of chaos is never associated with similarity. However, we found the chaotic systems belonging to one chaos family (OCF) have similar dynamic behavior, which is a novel characteristic of chaos. In this work, three classical chaotic system family are studied, which are Lorenz family, Chua family and hyperbolic sine family. These systems contain different derived chaotic systems (Lorenz system, Chen system and Lu system), different order chaotic systems (Chua family and hyperbolic sine family), and different kinds of chaotic systems (chaos and hyper-chaos). Their PSPs demonstrate that there exist strong correlation in OCF. Moreover, we found that high order/dimensional chaotic systems will inherit all dynamic behavior of lower ones, and the similarity will decrease as the order/dimensional goes higher, which is analogous to genetic process in biology. All of these features are quantitatively evaluated by PPMCC and SSIM.
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