The biological realm has inherited symme- tries from the physicochemical realm, but with the increasing complexity at higher phenomenological levels of life, some inherited symmetries are broken while novel symmetries appear. These symmetries are of two types, structural and operational. Biological novelties result from breaking opera- tional symmetries. They are followed by acquisition of regu- larity and stability, in a recurrent process throughout com- plexity levels.
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