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DIVERGENT LARVAE. "Poecilogony, a rare phenomenon in marine invertebrates, occurs when alternative larval morphs differing in dispersal potential or trophic mode are produced from a single genome." https://lnkd.in/dVRyG9n View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING. "Why can't computers program themselves? Why can't there be some combination of Genetic Algorithms, Inductive Logic Programming and the vast amounts of open source code as data, that can deduce the functions of code? Based on the patterns of programming, we should be able to generate programs based on a requirement as specified by a very high level language." https://lnkd.in/d8uRh9a View in LinkedIn

CONVERGENCE EXAMPLE. "For example, tunicates such as the colonial sea squirts (Botryllus spp.) can reproduce both sexually, through egg fertilization followed by embryonic and larval development, and asexually, from a bud, and without intervening larvae: the full-grown animals are nevertheless very similar in gross anatomy and in many details of structure." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1540/631.short View in LinkedIn

"ORDER IS NOT SUFFICIENT. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system." (A. N. Whitehead on “Ideal Opposites” in Process and Reality.) https://lnkd.in/dMkrh4P View in LinkedIn

PHENOTYPIC CONVERGENCE. "If a complex life cycle presents a number of alternative phenotypes (through divergent developmental pathways), this implies that at some point, distinct alternative developmental routes must converge towards the same phenotype." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1540/631.short View in LinkedIn

"EMERGENT COMPUTING is both a result of the unanticipated interplay of parts of an executable object and a way of modeling the appearance of putatively emergent properties." https://lnkd.in/dPyhGnF View in LinkedIn

DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY. "We hypothesize that a diversity of phenotypes arranged in developmental sequence throughout an animal's life cycle may have evolved by genetic assimilation of alternative phenotypes originally triggered by environmental cues." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1540/631.short View in LinkedIn

OVERLOOKED NUISANCE. "In most practical programming contexts emergent properties are either of little interest or are a nuisance to be avoided. However, some computer scientists have proposed actively exploiting features of emergent computing in the attempt to model emergent features of the natural world." https://lnkd.in/dPyhGnF View in LinkedIn

SELECTION PRESSURE. "The proposed advantage of increased parasite clone intermixture may be a novel selection pressure favouring the maintenance of complex life cycles." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00895.x/full View in LinkedIn

THEORY FOR THREE HOSTS. "For such life cycles, we propose here that maintaining a second intermediate host in the life cycle can be advantageous for the individual parasite to increase the intermixture of different clones and therefore decrease the risk of matings between genetically identical individuals in the definitive host." An elaborate way to avoid the prohibited inbreeding. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00895.x/full View in LinkedIn