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THE ALTERNBERG 16. "In recent years the modern synthesis has been declared extended by major evolutionary thinkers (e.g., “the Altenberg 16“ and others), as well as dead by major evolutionary thinkers, the late Lynn Margulis and Francisco Ayala among them." https://lnkd.in/eSeZ5Qq View in LinkedIn

REEXAMINATION IS NEEDED. "Most molecular biological concepts derive from physical chemical assumptions about the genetic code that are basically more than 40 years old. Recent empirical data on genetic code compositions and rearrangements by mobile genetic elements and noncoding RNAs, together with results of virus research and their role in evolution, does not really fit into these concepts and compel a reexamination." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

PATENTLY ABSURD. "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." (Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life," 1859, p. 155.). View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend with the subject of carnivorous plants. Their genetics are interesting because they are quite different from other plants. Their electrophysiology opened the door to other similar studies in plants. The ultrasound aspects of these plants underscore the pure complex adaptation that plants are capable of. Curiosities of nature. View in LinkedIn

THIS TOUR DE FORCE position paper by Güenther Witzany sets forth much of the core of the new thinking which revises Darwinian ideas of evolution in the light of modern genetics. Like all scientific theories, it continues to be modified by incremental data. This non-random viral-editing theory of evolution is a radical step away from traditional Darwinian views. https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn

OLD REDUCTIONISM. "For at least 4 decades, it was common use in molecular biology to investigate the physical chemical properties of nucleic acid sequence molecules. The essential assumptions were that natural laws determine statistical fluctuations in the molecular sequence order and errors in cellular genetic replications lead to variants in DNA sequences that are the object of selection processes." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

VIRAL GENOME EDITING VITAL TO ALL LIFE. "Contemporary sequence analyses and intercomparisons underline the crucial evolutionary functions of viruses and their genome-editing competences for all life forms." https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn

RNA AGENTS AND VIRUSES. "It seems plausible now that if we look at the abundance of regulatory RNAs and persistent viruses in host genomes, we will find more and more evidence that the key players that edit the genetic codes of host genomes are consortia of RNA agents and viruses that drive evolutionary novelty and regulation of cellular processes in all steps of development." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

CONTRARY TO DARWIN. "Evolutionary history emerges entirely differently than previously thought. This history is not an aggregation of chance mutations of the genetic text and its associated selection. Rather, it is a permanent and competent processing of genetic sequences to acquire previously unknown abilities and to ward off competing parasites via genomic innovation." https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn

NO GRADUAL MUTATION. "I would certainly go along with the view that gradual mutation followed by selection has not, as a matter of fact, been demonstrated to be necessarily a cause of speciation." (Professor Denis Nobel). https://lnkd.in/eSeZ5Qq View in LinkedIn