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MATHEMATICALLY SPEAKING. "A certain law of the struggle for existence which may be expressed by a system of differential equations of competition remains invariable all the time." https://lnkd.in/dXiaScE View in LinkedIn

STRUGGLE FOR ENTROPY. "The general struggle for existence of all living beings is not the struggle for the fundamental substances...but it is a struggle for entropy, which is available when energy passes from the hot sun to the cold earth." (Boltzmann). https://lnkd.in/dXiaScE View in LinkedIn

THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. "The complicated relationships between organisms which take place in nature have as their foundation definite elementary processes of the struggle for existence. Such an elementary process is that of one species devouring another, or when there is a competition for a common place between a small number of species in a limited microcosm." An interesting author. https://lnkd.in/dXiaScE View in LinkedIn

THE POPULAR THEME of predation in nature in the media simply reinforces our cultural biases. This cheap sensationalism is the modern sofa-based gladiator pit, replete with gory horror. https://lnkd.in/dbXjWMi View in LinkedIn

SEARING IMAGE. Fischer and Tennyson provoke and almost certainly meant to describe the typical predator-prey relationship of a lion and an antelope. The image of the struggle of life on an individual basis. Run with the herd and thrive; be injured or get sick and the predators will pick you off. How may a purely biological viewpoint modify these deeply prevalent images of nature? View in LinkedIn

MAINSTREAM VIEW. "Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact." (Martin H. Fischer); "Nature red in tooth and claw." (Alfred Lord Tennyson). https://lnkd.in/d4pWgqG View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE is a contemplation about a mainstream and pervasive view of nature, namely that it is "nasty, short and brutish" (to borrow from Thomas Hobbes) or that it is a battle for survival, and survival of the fittest (to borrow from Darwin). Our modern cinematographic portrayal of most natural scenes is one of constant bloodshed, conflict, and imminent dangers. View in LinkedIn

FUTURE SHADOW. "De novo construction of larger, eukaryotic genomes will clearly come about within a few years, as this needs only technical advances in methods that already exist." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

ALL FLOWS FROM THE SUN. "Animals use the Sun's energy and negative entropy indirectly and are therefore dependent on photo-synthesizing species. During digesting and utilization of organic food, energy and negative entropy is extracted in order to build and maintain higher-level organism. Digested food has a much lower energy content and much higher entropy as is returned to the environment. Therefore all species use energy and negative entropy flowing from the Sun to Earth." http://www.digital-recordings.com/publ/publife.html View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC GENOME. "The steps to RNA and onward to phenotype have been achieved with the construction and cellular transfer of the first chemically synthesized bacterial genome." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn