linkedin post 2017-03-01 05:11:43
EMERGENCE. "This continuum from non-life to life is an example of emergence?" https://lnkd.in/dYRg2SW View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-01 05:10:08
EXAPTATION OF OLD ERRORS. “Complex features arise by building on simpler features. The functions use bits and pieces of older functions, then tweak them here and there to get the new function." https://lnkd.in/dvEXJwm View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-01 05:08:55
SOCIETAL EXAPTATION. "All epoch-making discoveries have in their wake a revision of pre-existing ideas." https://lnkd.in/ewBp2XF View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-01 05:06:24
EXAPTATION "is a term used in evolutionary biology to describe a trait that has been co-opted for a use other than the one for which natural selection has built it." Darwin first conceived of the idea. http://www.livescience.com/39688-exaptation.html View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-03 05:13:47
"SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS of various kinds have played a major causal role in the evolutionary process generally and in the evolution of cooperation and complexity in particular." https://lnkd.in/dAmwzUd View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-01 05:01:20
OPPORTUNISTIC EVOLUTION. "Evolution is littered with examples of opportunism. Hosts infected by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents of disease left behind; metabolic enzymes somehow came to refract light rays through the eye’s lens; mammals took advantage of the sutures between the skull bones to help their young pass through the birth canal; and, in the signature example, feathers appeared in fossils before the ancestors of modern birds took to the skies." https://lnkd.in/d-P7wKZ View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-05 06:01:41
LIVING COMPOSITES. "We report here that the zoological sciences are also finding that animals are composites of many species living, developing, and evolving together. The discovery of symbiosis throughout the animal kingdom is fundamentally transforming the classical conception of an insular individuality into one in which interactive relationships among species blurs the boundaries of the organism and obscures the notion of essential identity." View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-05 06:00:37
BOTANISTS VERSUS ZOOLOGISTS. "In botanical science, the concept of the autonomous individual has also been challenged by discoveries concerning rhizobia, mycorrhizae, and endocytic fungae. Nonetheless, zoologists long subscribed to a more individualist conception of the organism, since the role of microbial symbionts had been more difficult to document in animal evolution." View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-05 05:58:46
SYMBIONT INHERITANCE. "This reorientation is not new for the microbial or botanical sciences. In the world of protists, hereditary symbiosis, the inheritance of acquired symbionts is legion. In the microbial world, “you are what you eat” can be taken literally." View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2017-03-05 05:56:25
NEW BLUEPRINT. "Recognizing the “holobiont”—the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts—as a critically important unit of anatomy, development, physiology, immunology, and evolution opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological subdisciplines have heretofore characterized living entities." View in LinkedIn