Tag: genetic code
Synergies All the Way Down
Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.
New Long Story Short — Life’s Ingenious Code
The video asks, “Where in your experience do things like language, proofreading, nanomachines, and information-rich code come from? You know the answer.”
A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning
The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide.
Iterations of Immortality
The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world.
Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic
Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris.