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The seven laws of morphogenetic evolution allow us to better comprehend the constraints and possibilities of evolutionary change. Parity bits of Hamming’s error-correcting code procedure may be used to simulate the appearance and disappearance of the scleritome. The Seventh Law states that morphogenetic field vectors may be bundled or dilated in a geometrically regular fashion to generate compound eyes or their ectodermal equivalent. The discovery of these laws implies that we exist in a law-governed universe, where the operation of said laws implies repeated and predictable outcomes in the history of life.

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McMenamin, M.A.S. (2018). Seventh Law. In: Deep Time Analysis. Springer Geology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74256-4_1

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