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COUNTERPARTS. "Digital codes in the form of electronic, magnetic or optical strings of 1's and 0's are as omnipresent in information technology as nucleotide codes in the form of DNA strings of A's, C's, G's and T's are in living nature." http://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOEVOLJ/TOEVOLJ-5-1.pdf View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this fragment from nature on the light-synchronized control of plant flowering. The ordered universe meshes with life on earth in great clocks with elaborate genetic control to ensure that sperm meets egg at the correct time in the correct place, and that the mandate of life — reproduction — carries on in glorious wasteful abundance to ensure the survival of the species. If ever there was a single metaphoric cartoon of life, then this is it. View in LinkedIn

INEVITABLE. "Computer viruses. Viral evolution may not only be possible but inevitable." https://lnkd.in/g5hUBjg View in LinkedIn

PATHWAY INTERACTIONS. "Floral-promotion pathways do not act in isolation but interact with floral-enabling pathways. The photoperiodic pathway promotes flowering through activation of the floral-integrator genes FT and SOC1, but this is not possible when high levels of FLC are present." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

EARLY STAGES. "The number of real, physical robots with evolved bodies can be counted on the fingers of one hand: 95+% evolution of robot brains (only the controllers); 4-%: evolution of robot morphologies in simulation (co-evolution body/brain);

PHOTOPERIODS PATHWAY. "Of the floral-promotion pathways, the photoperiodic pathway is probably the best understood. Key elements include a gene named CONSTANS, or CO, which encodes a nuclear protein with two zinc fingers at the amino terminus and a conserved carboxyl-terminal domain, known as the CCT domain for the three plant proteins in which it was identified." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

EVOROBOTICS. ”Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for automatic creation of autonomous robots". (Evolutionary Robotics)." "The Biology, Intelligence and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines. https://lnkd.in/eSgWwBG View in LinkedIn

EPIGENETIC SILENCING. "Once the vernalized state has been established it is stable throughout the life of the plant even if returned to warmer temperatures. It is thus mitotically stable through numerous cell divisions indicating that the repression of FLC expression is epigenetic. This epigenetic silencing of FLC is mediated by the VERNALIZATION 1 (VRN1) and VERNALIZATION 2 (VRN2) genes, which are involved in histone methylation and the formation of mitotically stable transcriptionally silent heterochromatin." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn

SELF-HEALING. "Evolvable hardware for robots that will inevitably involve self-healing capabilities." https://lnkd.in/ezE2q5c View in LinkedIn

EVOLVABLE HARDWARE. "We propose a number of possible directions for evolvable robot hardware, notably including the need for self-healing within complex evolved robots. We conclude the chapter by identifying three major challenges in evolvable robot hardware: when and how often to physically instantiate and fitness test, brain-body coevolution and genotype-phenotype mapping." https://lnkd.in/eMKS2fB View in LinkedIn