Year: 2022

CONNECTIVITY. “If there is one unifying principle in all of Nature, it is that everything in Nature is connected in some way to everything else.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn

LEVELS. “E.O.Wilson and Bert Holldubler in: “The Superorganism”: Life is a self-replicating hierarchy of levels. Biology is the study of the levels that compose the hierarchy. No phenomenon at any level can be wholly characterized without incorporating other phenomena that arise at all levels.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn

OPERATING CURRENCY. “The operating currency that flows throughout Nature’s inter-connected animate and inanimate forms is energy. This energy drives Nature by traveling through networks of inter-connectivity that are within all patterns in Nature. The transportation and transformation of energy is a highly connected necessity of life.” https://lnkd.in/gA3VwhY View in LinkedIn

THE DRIVING FORCE. “Energy is the force that drives Nature. Nothing in our Universe can happen without the existence of energy or the pathways by which that energy flows.” https://lnkd.in/g3AZeny View in LinkedIn

CORE ELEMENT. “Interdependence is a defining feature of all of Nature.” https://lnkd.in/g-_U4c9 2-18 View in LinkedIn

COMMON ROOT. “But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.” (Carl Sagan). https://lnkd.in/gtSPp6N View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this series of quotes from a brilliant essay on nature’s connectedness. Dylan Thomas would have appreciated it: " "“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" "Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees" "Is my destroyer." "And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose" "My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.” https://lnkd.in/eU9uxsa View in LinkedIn

“MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES for different genes in different species should be congruent if interspecies recombination is infrequent. However, recombination across species boundaries—howsoever defined—does occur much more frequently than envisioned by Dykhuizen and Green, producing incongruent phylogenies between species as well as within them.” https://lnkd.in/djKBnru View in LinkedIn

PROKARYOTE SPECIES BARRIERS. “Indeed it is not clear that any evolved barriers to intergroup exchange (other than those effective against lethal viruses and parasitic genetic elements, such as restriction-modification systems should exist in prokaryotes.” Radical viewpoint. Prokaryotes have been generally lumped together with recombining species in the past. https://lnkd.in/djKBnru View in LinkedIn

RECOMBINING SPECIES BARRIERS. “For animals that must recombine to reproduce, selection disfavors interspecific matings which, almost by definition, produce unfit or no progeny.” https://lnkd.in/djKBnru View in LinkedIn