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Selection in species with diverse cell types comes along with planned obsolescence
Ed Regis • Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
The notion that organisms maintain an overall homeostasis by stabilising complementary patterns of metabolic flux in different tissues is less familiar, but the large genomes of eukaryotic cells enable exactly this.
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Our anatomical systems are embedded in more systems—ones that humans have engineered and that make up our surrounding ecologies.
Raj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Also, a later analysis showed that the reduction in cardiovascular mortality was cancelled out by an increase in cancer mortality.
Ivor Cummins • Eat Rich, Live Long: Mastering the Low-Carb & Keto Spectrum for Weight Loss and Longevity
Amie Pearce • The evolution of sharks
economic growth. Open-cast mining and the ever-growing appetite of industry decimated forests and wild-lands. New and dangerous chemicals were excreted into rivers and the atmosphere.
Ramachandra Guha • Environmentalism
organic beings must be exposed during several generations to the new conditions of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation; and that when the organisation has once begun to vary, it generally continues to vary for many generations.
Charles Darwin • On the origin of species
a trait is complex, has energetic or material costs, which vary between individuals, and has persistence over evolutionary time, then it is presumed to be an adaptation.