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SIMPLE UNIVERSAL LOGIC. "Based on concepts from a variety of fields of research, the emerging notion is that common principles of biological and nonbiological organization indicate that natural phenomena arise and evolve from a central theme captured by the process of information exchange. Thus, a relatively simple universal logic that rules the evolution of natural phenomena can be unveiled from the apparent complexity of the natural world." https://lnkd.in/duQKRmB View in LinkedIn

SIMPLER IS FASTER. "Organisms that reproduce more quickly and plentifully than their competitors have an evolutionary advantage. Consequently, organisms can evolve to become simpler and thus multiply faster and produce more offspring, as they require fewer resources to reproduce." https://lnkd.in/dTDx7g6 View in LinkedIn

SIMPLICITY NOT SELECTED. "In part, the answer must be that most processes in eukaryotes generally evolve toward complexity, presumably because complexity provides more regulatory opportunities and perhaps also because there is no selective pressure to enforce simplicity." Not always true: genetic streamlining is very real in parasites that outsource their genomes to grow. https://lnkd.in/d8Qr_bk View in LinkedIn

CHROMOSOMES. The diploid number of chromosomes varies from 2 in Jack jumper ants to nearly 8,000 in ciliated protozoa. The average is between 100-200. https://lnkd.in/d58T4mt View in LinkedIn

GENES ASSEMBLE IN CHROMOSOMES. "Each chromosome is made of protein and a single molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)." Chromosomes are made of genes. Humans have 26 pairs of chromosomes, or 52 total. Each pair is unique, so 156 billion unique human chromosomes alone." https://lnkd.in/dX-cKKe View in LinkedIn

"SIMPLE COMPLEXITY. Gemini’s implications extend to the real world. “There’s a fascination with the complexity that is coming out of these incredibly simple rules,” says Susan Stepney, a computer scientist at the University of York, UK, who ran Gemini inside Life, at New Scientist‘s behest. “Eventually that leads on to biology, putting simple atoms together to make complex life.” https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

INDEFINITE. “Presumably, life emerged in a gradual, long-term process whereby primitive proto-organisms were created in the teeming, primal soup of the seas. Life is still not completed; it is a partly indefinite phenomenon of becoming, not a completely determined state of being.” (Emmeche, 1994). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

SIMPLIFYING EFFICIENCY. "Pargellis found that on average, a self-replicating sequence of instructions would spontaneously arise after about 400 generations. Initially, such 'self-reps' were often unnecessarily complex, and contained portions of code which performed no useful task, or were skipped over. This is directly analagous to the 'introns' and 'exons' found in real biological genes, where useful genetic information is interspersed with patches of nonsense." https://lnkd.in/dJPTA3e View in LinkedIn

SOME MORE THAN OTHERS. “It seems more appropriate to consider life as a continuum property of organizational patterns, with some more or less alive than others.” (Farmer & Belin, 1992). https://lnkd.in/dEj5vVD View in LinkedIn

ADDITIVE SIMPLICITY. "Essentially, simple processes are combined with other simple processes and the result is complexity. That is a simplification, but in principle that is how AI machines “learn” – they take what they already “know” (what’s been coded into them) and combine and recombine that into all of the varieties that can be combined." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn