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OUTSIDE OF SELECTION. "Although transposable elements may well be beneficially involved in eukaryote evolution, there are two reasons to doubt they arose or are maintained by selection pressures for such evolutionary functions." https://lnkd.in/duMgVnm View in LinkedIn

THE KEY PROOF. "If a given gene (region of DNA) or class of genes (regions) has evolved a strategy which increases its probability of survival within cells, then no additional (phenotypic) explanation for its origin or its continued existence is required." https://lnkd.in/duMgVnm View in LinkedIn

SURVIVAL OF THE GENE. "A useful way to look at this problem is Dawkins's "Selfish Gene" picture of evolution, where the fundamental unit to be maintained by natural selection is not the individual, nor the group or the species, but the gene." https://lnkd.in/ecMXQ_u View in LinkedIn

DNA SELECTIVE PRESSURE. "The only natural selection pressure that DNAs experience directly is the pressure to survive within cells." https://lnkd.in/duMgVnm View in LinkedIn

KEY TO GREY ZONE. "It is only by clearly understanding how chemical systems can transfer and process information that we can hope to understand how self-replication and evolution can occur, and by implication, understand how life might have begun." https://lnkd.in/dhc7k7H View in LinkedIn

DNA MILIEU. "Natural selection does not operate on DNA only through organismal phenotype. Cells themselves are environments in which DNA sequences can replicate, mutate, and so evolve." https://lnkd.in/duMgVnm View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION. "This work suggests that the concept of a self-replicating chemistry is closely related to the concept of a chemistry that can store information and compute." https://lnkd.in/dhc7k7H View in LinkedIn

DNA FIRST PROPOSITION. "The assertion that organisms are simply DNA's way of producing more DNA has been made so often that it is hard to remember who made it first." https://lnkd.in/duMgVnm View in LinkedIn

CRYSTALLINE DNA. "I construct a chemical system that preliminary evidence suggests is capable of the most basic self-replication and evolution. The system uses no enzymes or biological sequences, can support and replicate a combinatorial genome, and is completely autonomous." https://lnkd.in/dhc7k7H View in LinkedIn

REVERSAL OF SPECIALIZATION. "Recently, however, a growing number of studies of specialization indicate that transitions from specialization to generalization are possible." https://lnkd.in/dcsE4uQ View in LinkedIn