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TRANSITIONS DUE TO COEVOLUTION. "Many major events in the history of life may be attributed to reciprocal coevolutionary change, including the origin of the eukaryotic cell, the origin of plants, the evolution of coral reefs, and the formation of lichens, mycorrhizae, and rhizobia." https://lnkd.in/d3gZgG7 View in LinkedIn

Q: "Is it possible to selectively breed a code to perform selected tasks?"" "A: "Genetic programming.' https://lnkd.in/dMmdiWZ View in LinkedIn

POLLINATOR EXAMPLES. "Permanent reciprocal selective pressure between pairs of coevolving species can lead to a coevolutionary race and rapid evolutionary change. This is exemplified by spurred flowers and long-tongued flower-visitors." A lovely review. https://lnkd.in/dyf9mxs View in LinkedIn

COEVOLUTION CLASSIC. "Darwin used as a case-in-point the evolution of long-spurred flowers and long-tongued pollinators (Darwin, 1862). His logical assumption was that selection should favour spurs that are longer than the pollinator’s tongue." https://lnkd.in/d3gZgG7 View in LinkedIn

DEEP IMPACT. "Coevolution with parasites also had profound effects on the phylogenetic structure of host populations and on the phenotypic evolvability of host genomes." https://lnkd.in/dUUFYJe View in LinkedIn

REPETITIVE CODE. "Executable programs in computers use the same patterns of repetition in instructions that we observe in genome sequences. Despite the fact that they share none of the same physical mechanisms, genomes and computer programs have very similar structures." https://lnkd.in/de9z-Pn View in LinkedIn

REPETITIVE SEQUENCES. "This opens up the possibility that these repeats can act as information carriers and be under selective pressure." https://lnkd.in/de9z-Pn View in LinkedIn

REPETITIVE VARIATION. "A repeat consisting of perfect copies contains no information beyond its base sequence and the number of copies. However, using sequence visualization tools, what is actually observed in the human genome is that repetitive sequences contain many variations without exception." https://lnkd.in/de9z-Pn View in LinkedIn

JUNK CODE. "The human genome is highly repetitive at all scales. Repetitive sequences make up at least half the genome and have long been dismissed as non-functional DNA." https://lnkd.in/de9z-Pn View in LinkedIn

CHEMICAL VS DIGITAL CODE. "Striking architectural similarities between higher genomes and computer executable code." https://lnkd.in/de9z-Pn View in LinkedIn