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12 09, 2016

Evolvability: the Present Colliding with the Future
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Evolvability: the Present Colliding with the Future

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Evolvability: the Present Colliding with the Future

By Joram Piatigorsky|2020-04-02T21:03:18-04:00September 12th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Perpectives|Tags: chance, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Evolvability, Fantasy, Gene sharing, mutations, Phylogenetic tree, Present and Future, Proteins, sailor circus|0 Comments

To what extent does the future govern the present in our lives? In an earlier blog (Time: Real and Imagined; January 2, 2016), I raised this question. Let’s say I was guaranteed (impossible, of course) that I would live an extended life, but I was also assured that planet Earth would be destroyed a year [...]

22 08, 2016

Spokes from a Common Hub: Two Perspectives
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Spokes from a Common Hub: Two Perspectives

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Spokes from a Common Hub: Two Perspectives

By Joram Piatigorsky|2021-02-28T13:34:25-05:00August 22nd, 2016|Categories: Blog, Perpectives, Science|Tags: About the invention of nature, Andrea Wulf, Charles Darwin, From Fins into Hands, Gene sharing, Gene Sharing and Evolution, New York Times|0 Comments

In her comprehensive biography, The Invention of Nature (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), Andrea Wulf tells how Alexander Humboldt (1769 -1859) was the first to understand that the natural world “was interwoven as with ‘a thousand threads’.” Humboldt saw “unity in variety.” He was the first to consider different plants, animals and inanimate nature interdependent and [...]