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		1.5.14— More Examples of the Statistical Properties of Fractals

		We have already seen that the statistical properties of fractals are present in the timing of the action potentials recorded from nerves that carry information about sound that we use for hearing, in the spatial distribution of blood flow in the muscle of the heart, in the sequence of the volumes of breaths, in the number of mutated cells produced by Darwinian evolution, in the timing of the electrical activity of the heartbeat, and in the spatial distribution of radioactive tracer in the liver.

		Additional examples of these statistical properties include the changing electrical voltage across the cell membrane of white blood cells (T-lymphocytes), the sequence of base pairs in DNA where each base pair is assigned a number and the running sum of these numbers is analyzed, and the duration in time of consecutive breaths.

 

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