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WESTERN DIET and cancer. https://lnkd.in/exSAbw6 View in LinkedIn

CONCEPT. “The Genetic Fixation of Adaptation without Differential Reproduction.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

THIRD EVENT. “If the new situation with the new gene expression profile lasts long enough, then mutations that are selectively neutral in the new environment would gradually accumulate and eventually individuals in the derived population might be incapable of developing the ancestral phenotype, even in the old environment.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

SECOND EVENT. “The new gene expression profile can last for many generations due to reasons which are not genetic.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

FIRST EVENT. “A population happens to face new conditions (due to a change of their environment, either locally or due to migration, of food, or symbionts, etc.) and the organisms of this population accommodate to the new conditions via a physiological adjustment (as related to the trophic or behavioural change); this may change their gene expression profile, as it often does (without a change of genome, yet).” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

SELECTION-FREE ADAPTION. “An adaptive evolutionary mechanism without natural selection can be described by the following sequence of events.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

ROAD OF ERRORS. “Organic plasticity (as different from transformations in non-living systems) should be understood as a change that has alternatives – it should be possible also to behave in the ways that do not meet the needs, it should be possible to make errors.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

“ORGANIC PLASTICITY – the ability to solve unexpected problems, to accommodate one's behaviour during the lifetime, according to circumstances – is a universal feature of all living beings. This feature does not require an additional evolutionary explanation because it is as universal as life itself.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

REVERSIBILITY. “Adaptation is a meaningful relation for a living system, which is defined independently from the process of evolution. An adaptation is evolutionary only if it is irreversible, as evolution is defined as an irreversible transformation.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn

PLASTICITY AND SPECIATION. “By the plasticity hypothesis, divergence, in the form of alternative phenotypes, life-stage differences, and contrasting traits such as those expressed under extreme or novel conditions, arises first; then particular variants are fixed in particular subpopulations due to assortative mating, environmentally mediated change in expression, or selection. … Extreme plasticity such as learning can produce exceedingly rapid (abrupt) speciation.” https://lnkd.in/eS_4y_J View in LinkedIn