Abstract
Within recent millennia, sentient representatives of the species Homo sapiens have explored science with a sense of curiosity. Currently there are schoolchildren, university students and academic researchers, in Africa and elsewhere, asking questions about relativity, mass, space, particles, waves, space-time and the nature of constants in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Recently, questions have been raised about whether an irrational mathematical constant - designated by the Greek symbol Φ with a value of about 1.618 - can be related to a biological species constant (T), based on morphometric analyses of modern mammalian skulls, and explored in the context of probabilities of conspecificity of Plio-Pleistocene hominin fossils. We suggest that there is a strong case that this so-called 'Golden Ratio' (1.61803...) can be related not only to aspects of mathematics but also to physics, chemistry, biology and the topology of space-time.
Highlights
Within recent millennia, sentient representatives of the species Homo sapiens have explored science with a sense of curiosity
We suggest that there is a strong case that this so-called ‘Golden Ratio’ (1.61803...) can be related to aspects of mathematics and to physics, chemistry, biology and the topology of space-time.[1]
An absolute mean log sem value of ca 1.61 has been obtained for conspecific pairwise comparisons of extant vertebrates and invertebrates (Coleoptera and Lepidoptera).[3]
Summary
Sentient representatives of the species Homo sapiens have explored science with a sense of curiosity. POSTAL ADDRESS: Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, PO WITS, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa
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