Year: 2022

THE DIVISION OF LABOUR EXAMPLES. "Hermaphrodites are replaced by separate sexes: the most convincing explanation for why some organisms are hermaphrodite and some dioecious is in terms of an advantage of a division of labour." https://lnkd.in/eZ5-m7K View in LinkedIn

CONDITIONS FOR COOPERATION. "If cooperation is to evolve, non-additive or synergistic, fitness interactions are needed...but the dangers of intragenomic conflict remain: both relatedness and synergistic fitness interactions are likely to be needed." https://lnkd.in/eZ5-m7K View in LinkedIn

POWER OF GRAMMAR. "The emergence of human language with a universal grammar and unlimited semantic representation. Grammar enables a speaker with a finite vocabulary to convey an indefinitely large number of meanings, just as the genetic code enables DNA to specify an indefinitely large number of proteins." https://lnkd.in/eZ5-m7K View in LinkedIn

"A CENTRAL IDEA in contemporary biology is that of information." https://lnkd.in/eZ5-m7K View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION. "Developmental biology can be seen as the study of how information in the genome is translated into adult structure, and evolutionary biology is how the information came to be there in the first place." https://lnkd.in/eZ5-m7K View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION IS CENTRAL. "Our excuse for writing an article concerning topics as diverse as the origins of genes, of cells, of language is that all are concerned with the storage and transmission of information." The end of a classic paper. https://lnkd.in/eZ5-m7K View in LinkedIn

ODDITY OF LIFE. The chemist George Whitesides has stated, "How remarkable is life? The answer is: very. Those of us who deal in networks of chemical reactions know of nothing like it’." https://lnkd.in/einZ2Fh View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION TRANSITIONS. "A major evolutionary transition has been most broadly defined as a change in the way that heritable information is stored and transmitted." https://lnkd.in/eia5GWQ View in LinkedIn

RNA WORLD. "Earliest life used RNA as a replicator, as a means of encoding amino acid sequences, and as a catalytic molecule. Reliance on RNA for all three functions came at the cost of high mutation rate and difficulty in segregating these functions within cells." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn

DATA VS BREEDING. "The evolution of DNA separated replication and information storage functions from protein-translation functions and from catalytic activity." https://lnkd.in/eKjEK6c View in LinkedIn