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From the dawn of life to the present, beneficial degradation has been a constant background—there’s no way to avoid
Michael J. Behe • Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
In addition to the exploitation of natural resources by industry in general, the chemical industry in particular has created a wide variety of new substances that could never have developed naturally; this makes it difficult, if not impossible, for them to degrade naturally.
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
Selection in species with diverse cell types comes along with planned obsolescence
Ed Regis • Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
Evolution is what happens when patterns that used to define survival become deadly.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
Today, the human body is changing in ways that have nothing to do with the “survival of the fittest.” Instead, we’re adopting and passing down traits that are detrimental to our health. This concept, called dysevolution, was made popular by Harvard biologist Daniel Lieberman, and it explains why our backs ache, feet hurt, and bones are growing more
... See moreJames Nestor • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Of all the Horsemen, cancer is probably the hardest to prevent. It is probably also the one where bad luck in various forms plays the greatest role, such as in the form of accumulated somatic mutations. The only modifiable risks that really stand out in the data are smoking, insulin resistance, and obesity (all to be avoided)—and maybe pollution (a
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