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Photographs of Belousov-Zhabotinski reaction show startling chemical wave patterns in which, despite radical differences between first and last stages, each successive stage represents a simple and natural evolution from the previous pattern.

Chemical physics finding demonstrating smooth structure-preserving unfolding in a non-biological chemical system

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Ilya Prigogine
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In every natural developmental sequence examined, each state follows without breaking structure from the state before, exhibiting smooth structure-preserving unfolding essentially without exception.
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The empirical-observational claim grounded in the diverse case studies presented in the chapter

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If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.728
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Prediction about the geometric outcome of a proper living process.