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SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. "The Ancient Greeks believed that living things could spontaneously come into being from nonliving matter, and that the goddess Gaia could make life arise spontaneously from stones – a process known as Generatio spontanea." Clearly a problematic concept. https://lnkd.in/eJXtXQy View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX TRAIT. "Dormancy is a complex trait because it is influenced by both environmental and endogenous factors. Moreover, the final level of dormancy is determined by the contributions of the different tissues that comprise a seed." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

HALF-COOKED. "This continuity makes the conceptualization of life a very difficult task, since it should exist “half-living” or “quite-living” systems." https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

TYPES OF DORMANCY. "Different seed dormancy classes exist among plant species, which can be divided in physiological dormancy, morphological dormancy, morphophysiological dormancy, physical dormancy and combinational dormancy. Physiological dormancy is most common and can be separated into deep and non-deep, of which the latter is the most prevalent and also the major form of dormancy in plant model species." https://lnkd.in/dgHUjzK View in LinkedIn

LACK OF CLARITY. “The borders between the living and the nonliving, between the Nature-made and the human-made appear to be constantly blurring.” (Sipper). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

"SUPPLE ADAPTATION is not to be equated with natural selection. For one thing, natural selection is not necessary for supple adaptation." https://lnkd.in/da-Njua View in LinkedIn

BEDAU CONCEPT. "Supple adaptation refers to the fact that living systems have an unending capacity to find new unpredictable adaptive solutions to unanticipated changes in the environment." https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

MARK BEDAU DEFINITION. "I propose that an automatic and continually creative evolutionary process of adapting to changing environments is the primary form of life...what is distinctive of life is the way in which evolution automatically fashions and refashions appropriate strategies for coping as local contexts change." https://lnkd.in/da-Njua View in LinkedIn

SIMPLEST DEFINITION. "E. Mayr: “We shall regard as alive any population of entities which has the properties of multiplication, heredity and variation.” https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

OMNE VIVUM. "Pasteur demonstrated that life does not arise in areas that have not been contaminated by existing life. Pasteur's empirical results were summarized in the phrase Omne vivum ex vivo, Latin for "all life [is] from life".” https://lnkd.in/eJXtXQy View in LinkedIn