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Steve Huntsman
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A 1993 PRL by Hornos and Hornos suggested that the evolution of the genetic code manifests itself through symmetry breaking. According to them the basic symmetry is supposed to be $SU(2)^{\otimes 3}$ (three nucleotides per codon).