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Beyond Networks: The Evolution of Living Systems
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youtube.comOxytricha has 100 million truly tiny chromosomes, each harboring just a single gene.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard
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Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating
While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
At Harvard University, for example, George Church and his colleagues have drawn up a list of 151 genes, which they think would be enough to keep an organism alive.