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J. C. Phillips
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What is life. Schrodingers question is discussed here for a specific protein, villin, which builds cells in tissues that detect taste and sound. Villin is represented by a sequence of 827 amino acids bound to a peptide backbone chain. We focus attention on a limited problem, the Darwinian evolution of villin sequences from chickens to humans. This biophysical problem is analyzed using a new physicical method based on thermodynamic domain scaling, a technique that bridges the gap between physical concepts, self-organized criticality, and conventional biostructural practice. It turns out that the evolutionary changes can be explained by Darwinian selection, which is not generally accepted by biologists at the protein level. The presentation is self-contained, and requires no prior experience with proteins at the molecular level.
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