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JAMES A SHAPIRO talks about evolution, Darwin and his new perspectives. https://lnkd.in/et5shQM View in LinkedIn

SIGNALING INFORMATION IN A TRIBE. "Coordination of living agents, whether they are cells or viruses or parts of cells — coordination of behavior in organisms needs and must have signaling. Without signaling you can’t have transport of information and you can’t really get coordination of two participating agents. But the signals are not the agents. There are living agents that use signals and generate signals to transport meaning and content and information." https://lnkd.in/eeE4V_D View in LinkedIn

JAMES A SHAPIRO: "while working at Harvard, Shapiro was part of the first team to isolate a single gene from an organism. An expert in bacterial genetics, he proposes the concept of Natural Genetic Engineering, a process described to account for novelty created in the process of biological evolution. Shapiro is an advocate of non-Darwinian evolution and is a critic of the modern synthesis." http://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/james-a-shapiro View in LinkedIn

"THE MODERN SYNTHESIS regards the genetic code as a lineup of molecules that can be investigated through physics and chemistry and mathematics (for sure). And this is it. However, we know the genetic content of organisms is about communication, which cannot be reduced simply to physics and chemistry. Since the 1970s, Manfred Eigen has insisted that the genetic code is really a language, not just metaphorically, but a real language." https://lnkd.in/eeE4V_D View in LinkedIn

PROF JAMES SHAPIRO: Harvard undergraduate (English), Cambridge PhD (genetics), Harvard, Pasteur, Tel Aviv, and Brandeis postdoctoral studies, then appointments at the University of Chicago and University of Edinburgh; a geneticist with a strong interest in mobile genetic elements. Phi Beta Kappa, Marshall Scholar, Darwin Prize, Fellow AAAS, honorary OBE, invited 2014 to give 3rd annual Nobel Prize Lecture. Proponent of new thinking in genetics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Shapiro View in LinkedIn

BEYOND DNA. "The machine metaphor in molecular biology is an old-fashioned narrative that would like to reduce life to physics and chemistry. Manfred Eigen and Sydney Brenner expanded the concept by adding also information: “Life = physics + chemistry + information”." https://lnkd.in/eq5fHhr View in LinkedIn

GÜENTHER WITZANY. "Over the last half dozen years, philosopher of science and language, Güenther Witzany, working from his private practice in Austria, has organized and/or co-organized two major conferences, one on viruses and another on natural genetic engineering/natural genome editing plus served as editor of six books, two of which are based on the proceedings of the above-mentioned meetings. He is especially known for his “Theory of Communicative Nature." https://lnkd.in/eeE4V_D View in LinkedIn

GÜENTHER WITZANY has authored a number of books including; natural genome editing; bio communication in soil microorganisms, plants, fungi and animals; viruses; and natural genome editing. https://lnkd.in/emqdYrV View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING. Güenther Witzany is another member of the group of Darwin reformers who are applying modern genetics to old Darwinian ideas in a totally new synthesis. He has been criticized for being a philosopher who comments on genetics, but those comments are narrow and petty. He has made major contributions to the big view of evolution and sorting out how to interpret modern genetics in the Darwinian paradigm. Over 100 Publications, mostly on biology. https://lnkd.in/evPAh84 View in LinkedIn

VIRAL GENOME EDITING AS EVOLUTIONARY DRIVERS. "These competences integrate the whole toolbox of natural genetic engineering, replication, transcription, translation, genomic imprinting, genomic creativity, enzymatic inventions and all types of genetic repair patterns." https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn