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"Cognition-Based Evolution offers a 21st century alternative to traditional Neodarwinism: biological evolution is a reciprocating cognition-based informational interactome for the protection of cells from environmental stresses. All cells are cognitive, measure information, and communicate. To...
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CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Boca Raton, FL : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"Cognition-Based Evolution offers a 21st century alternative to traditional Neodarwinism: biological evolution is a reciprocating cognition-based informational interactome for the protection of cells from environmental stresses. All cells are cognitive, measure information, and communicate. To sustain themselves, intelligent cells deploy these faculties to work collectively, forming the basis of multicellularity. This coordinate action is natural cellular engineering, which propels biological and evolutionary development. In this modern paradigm, biological variations arise from coordinate cellular problem-solving rather than random genetic mutations. Genes are not evolutionary drivers but are flexible tools of intelligent cells in their confrontation with the planetary environment"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781032261478 1032261471 9781032261485 103226148X |
| Index Number: | QH581 |
| CLC: | Q2 |
| Call Number: | Q2/M652 |
| Contents: | Introduction : Evolution Recast -- Neodarwinism : Evolution in the 20th Century -- 21st Century Evolution : The Intelligent Measuring Cell -- The Cellular Information Cycle and Biological Information Management -- The Senome : The Cellular Connection with Environmental Information -- N-space Episenome : Concordant Cellular Information -- Natural Cellular engineering as Multicellular Problem-solving -- Non-random Variations in Natural Cellular Engineering -- The Virome and Natural Viral-Cellular Engineering -- Holobionts : A Consensual 'We' -- The Role of the Microbiome in the Evolution and Development of Holobionts -- Four Domains and the Primacy of the Unicellular State -- Speciation -- Sexual Reproduction and its Impact on Evolutionary Variation -- Extinction -- Old Controversies Revisited-Where is the Cusp of Creativity? -- The Primacy of Cellular Consciousness -- How Might Biology Instruct Physics? -- A Separation from the Past -- Conclusion-The Intelligent Measuring Cell. |