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INFORMATIONAL EVOLUTION. "John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary (for example) suggest that major transitions in evolution depend on expansions in the amount and accuracy with which information is transmitted across the generations. And some have argued that we can only understand the evolutionary role of genes by recognizing an informational “domain” that exists alongside the domain of matter and energy." https://lnkd.in/espyFHA View in LinkedIn

INTER VS INTRA. "Gene transfer within species should slow down diversification by increasing genetic similarity. This may result in higher standing stocks of (more or less) identical genomes and thus in a higher survival chance depending on the stability of the environment. Gene transfer across species and genus barriers should promote adaptation and increase diversity." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x/full View in LinkedIn

BIO-INFORMATION. "Some have hailed the employment of informational concepts as a crucial advance. Others have seen almost every biological application of informational concepts as a serious error, one that distorts our understanding and contributes to lingering genetic determinism." https://lnkd.in/espyFHA View in LinkedIn

HGT RATE. "We estimated 10(13) transductants per year in the Mediterranean basin." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x/full View in LinkedIn

NESTED HIERARCHY. "A living system represents a hierarchy of nested structures and consists, at each level of hierarchy, of individuals, subjects (cells, organisms, groups). Every living system is equipped with a fixed number of distinct sensors. The sensors interact with a specific part of the surroundings." Information at all levels is critical to accomplish orderly control. https://lnkd.in/e-VqAeg View in LinkedIn

HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER. "The transduction frequency varied over orders of magnitude from 10(-8) to 10(-5) per virus...there might be up to 100 transductants l(-1) day(-1) or up to 1.3 × 10(14) transductants per year in Tampa Bay." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x/full View in LinkedIn

MICRO- TO MACRO-COMMUNICATION. "There is an intrinsic drive for biological entities to cooperate and coordinate responses to environmental cues. From DNA replication, to bacterial quorum sensing, through to bird flock behaviors, and even to human economic structures, biological systems organize behaviors via communication." Communication of information. https://lnkd.in/eJc-Z-m View in LinkedIn

METAPHOR OR REAL? "Is the informational or semantic description of genes metaphorical, or not? Or is the idea of neural computation something more like a metaphor?" https://lnkd.in/eHPWXiJ View in LinkedIn

DEFINITIONS. "A distinction made between data, information, instruction, command and knowledge may have bearing on the use, disuse and abuse of the term information." https://lnkd.in/e-VqAeg View in LinkedIn

SLIPPERY SUBSTANCE. “Information is only that which produces information” (relativity). Information is only that which is understood (rationality). Information has no absolute meaning." (C. F. Von Weizsacker). https://lnkd.in/e6SKFbD View in LinkedIn