linkedin post 2018-04-05 04:12:40

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2500 YEARS OF BIOLOGY. “Our hermeneutic circle summarizes the course of experimental biology through 2500 years of the achievements of reductionist research (understanding the parts), which culminates in our ability to rapidly sequence the genome.” http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1535370214564534 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-04-02 10:40:57

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ENGULFMENT REMAINS. “For all dsDNA viruses of eukaryotes, we can detect clear ancestry among viruses (and in some cases, plasmids) of bacteria, an observation that is compatible with the key role of the (proto)mitochondrial endosymbiont (and possibly other bacterial symbionts) in the evolution of eukaryotes.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12728/full View in LinkedIn
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INTERPRETIVE THEORIES. “The new cover of Experimental Biology and Medicine features the hermeneutic circle of biology, a concept we have adapted from the hermeneutic principle that one understands the whole only in terms of each part and the parts only in terms of the whole.” https://lnkd.in/dgZEzC6 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-04-02 10:39:50

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EMERGING PRINCIPLES. “One such key principle is the unity of the evolutionary processes among viruses and capsid-less selfish elements. However, the equally fundamental, complementary principle is the evolutionary persistence of viral morphogenetic modules.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12728/full View in LinkedIn
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NECESSARY TENSION. “Jacob is one of the fathers of modern Biology, and in his monumental work The Logic of Life he recounts the polarity that has always existed in biological science between analytical and synthetic traditions, between reductionism and holism.” https://lnkd.in/drJfrU7 View in LinkedIn
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SWINGS AND PENDULUMS. “While system-centric studies in specific subfields of biology can be traced back to the 1950s and 1960s, it was not until the mid-1990s that systems biology developed into a major counter-movement that would grow to challenge the reductionist approach.” https://bmcsystbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-0509-8-S2-S1 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-04-07 02:59:36

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INCREASING COMPLEXITY. “As the wind of time blows into the sails of space, the unfolding of the universe nurtures the evolution of matter under the pressure of information. From divided to condensed and on to organized, living, and thinking matter, the path is toward an increase in complexity through self-organization.” https://lnkd.in/dN969hA View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-04-07 02:56:12

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend abstracts a fascinating article about how simple chemicals can self-assemble into complex architectures (supramolecular chemistry), using the weak bond information within molecules, and programming a variety of outputs, leading to truly emergent phenomena at higher levels of complexity. It seems that we have greatly underestimated so-called simple inanimate matter. https://lnkd.in/d88ypEi View in LinkedIn
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