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ANTHROPOCENE ERA. "It has been proposed that the current geological epoch should be christened the Anthropocene, distinguished from the Holocene because human-driven alterations to biogeochemistry are large enough to leave clear signals in the geological record." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

NO ANTICIPATORY EVOLUTION EXISTS? "In each case, the conventional answer seems to be—it cannot. It is not possible for evolution by natural selection to produce adaptations for an environment it has not yet encountered, to produce organisation at the system level without selection at the system level, or to create new units that are adaptive for a level of selection that does not yet exist." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

A MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENT. "In this case, non-biological information would be archived in a biological repository. Consequently, humans are embarking on fundamental extensions to the flow of information circumscribed by the Central Dogma. This is a major development in the course of evolutionary history." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATORY EVOLUTION. "Can evolution at one level of organisation favour the creation of heritable evolutionary units that are adaptive at a higher-level of organisation? That is, can the evolution of reproductive organisations find new heritable units that are suitable for responding to selection at the higher level of organisation before that level of organisation exists?" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

WORLD AS DATA. "The growing efficiency of DNA sequencing and synthesis means that it will soon become practical to encode digital information as DNA sequence. This would provide advantages of long-term storage and the capacity for archiving far more information than is currently stored globally." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ECOSYSTEM EVOLUTION. "Can an ecosystem be organised ‘for’ anything if it is not an evolutionary unit? That is, how can natural selection at the level of individuals within multiple species result in ecological organisations that are self-supporting at the system level (homeostasis), or indeed, result in any kind of ‘ecosystem evolution’ that is more than the sum of the evolution of the parts?" http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION. "Conversely, if all it does is find organisations that are fit over the set of past environments, then that seems to be conventional evolution, not the evolution of evolvability." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-015-9358-z View in LinkedIn

BY NOSES, BACTERIA: 4-6 x 10(30) cells. "The total amount of prokaryotic carbon is 60–100% of the estimated total carbon in plants, and inclusion of prokaryotic carbon in global models will almost double estimates of the amount of carbon stored in living organisms." Can be either heterotrophs or autotrophs. https://lnkd.in/dU7VJwv View in LinkedIn

2ND WHOPPING IGNORED CATEGORY. "Microbial and metazoan food webs are one. Believe it or not, this integrated approach is rare. Prokaryotic global biomass is at least 60% that of plants. Perhaps much more." And we only know a few percent of the species of bacteria, viruses and fungi. https://lnkd.in/dFC_Kpj View in LinkedIn

1ST WHOPPING IGNORED CATEGORY. "Parasitism is the most common animal lifestyle, yet food webs rarely include parasites." https://lnkd.in/dvemNYR View in LinkedIn