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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

MANTRAS IN ECLIPSE. "The central dogma of molecular biology has been falsified — that is, the way is always from DNA to RNA to proteins to anything else, or the other “dogmas,” e.g., replication errors drive evolutionary genetic variation, that one gene codes for one protein and that non-coding DNA is junk. All these concepts that dominated science for half a century are falsified now." https://lnkd.in/eeE4V_D 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

TRANSITION OF THEORIES. "The older concepts we have now for a half century cannot sufficiently explain the complex tendency of the genetic code. They can’t explain the functions of mobile genetic elements and the endogenous retroviruses and non-coding RNAs." https://lnkd.in/eeE4V_D View in LinkedIn

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

GAS EMISSIONS. "One aspect of environmental significance of earthworms discovered recently was the extensive N2O production by microorganisms in the earthworm gut. The numbers of fermentative anaerobes and microbes that used nitrate as a terminal electron acceptor were approximately 2 orders of magnitude higher in the earthworm gut than in the soil from which the earthworms originated." https://lnkd.in/ekT4s-F View in LinkedIn