Month: September 2022

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

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

NEGATIVE REVIEW. "The key goal of this book is to demonstrate that a central premise of Darwinian evolution is incorrect and to spell out the implications of that conclusion for evolutionary theory." (Review of James A. Shapiro's book, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century). https://lnkd.in/esN4a97 View in LinkedIn

NATURAL GENETIC ENGINEERING. "The general argument of the book, buttressed by all these examples—that genomes can be highly responsive to environmental influences, becoming “reformatted” to greater or lesser extent—is clearly important...the general phenomenon is given a name here, namely “natural genetic engineering,” defined as the ability of cells to alter their genomes in response to environmental challenge." https://lnkd.in/esN4a97 View in LinkedIn

MC ESCHER'S DRAWING HANDS. "The capacity of living organisms to alter their own heredity is undeniable. Our current ideas about evolution have to incorporate this basic fact of life." (James A. Shapiro, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, p.2). http://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/james-a-shapiro View in LinkedIn

GRAND SYNTHESIS. "Shapiro integrates advances in symbiogenesis, epigenetics, and saltationism into a unified approach that views evolutionary change as an active cell process, regulated epigenetically and capable of making rapid large changes by horizontal DNA transfer, inter-specific hybridization, whole genome doubling, symbiogenesis, or massive genome restructuring." (Regarding (James A. Shapiro, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century). http://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/james-a-shapiro View in LinkedIn

Dolly the Sheep creator calls for biobank to save endangered animals http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/05/dolly-the-sheep-creator-calls-for-biobank-to-save-endangered-animals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

ANYONE WHO FOLLOWS this blog will see a concentration on topics including: emergence, origin of life, viruses and bacteria, horizontal gene transfer, transposons, plasmid origins, and epigenetics, among others. Lightly connecting the dots between new knowledge. But the heavy lifting of putting it all together in a coherent theory has been done by some of the brightest minds in the field. Enjoy the detailed postings to follow. View in LinkedIn

SELF-WRITING CODE. "The genome has traditionally been treated as a Read-Only Memory (ROM) subject to change by copying errors and accidents. In this review, I propose that we need to change that perspective and understand the genome as an intricately formatted Read–Write (RW) data storage system constantly subject to cellular modifications and inscriptions." http://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/james-a-shapiro View in LinkedIn

CELLULAR GENOME INSCRIPTIONS. "Cells operate under changing conditions and are continually modifying themselves by genome inscriptions. These inscriptions occur over three distinct time-scales (cell reproduction, multicellular development and evolutionary change) and involve a variety of different processes at each time scale (forming nucleoprotein complexes, epigenetic formatting and changes in DNA sequence structure)." http://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/james-a-shapiro View in LinkedIn