Dear FiSers,
gamechanging? Look at here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29310692
Ciao!
> Il 22 gennaio 2018 alle 13.01 "Pedro C. Marijuan"
> ha scritto:
>
> Dear FISers,
>
> Going to the extreme, I think this year opening lecture can be summarized
> in three contentious points.
>
> 1. That life's physiology is based on the conjunction of a few
> principles: neguentropy, chemiosmosis, and homeostasis-homeorhesis.
>
> 2. That communication (cell signaling) is an essential factor in the
> multicellular evolution towards complexity.
>
> 3. That epigenetic inheritance and the obligate recursion to the
> unicellular state become the basis of a new evolutionary theory.
>
> I disagree with point 1, as I think some nonliving states could also be
> characterized by those principles (eg, chemical cycles/hypercycles in marine
> vents, and other outcomes derived from "energy flows"); besides, some
> previous "info stuff" has to be in place. Then I completely agree with point
> 2, for signaling is not just another characteristic of the cell, it is "the"
> eukaryotic trait par excellence. And I am curious on how point 3 could be
> further substantiated... In this respect I recommend the two papers that Bill
> sent to the list a few weeks ago. Do we need to postulate the emergence of a
> form of "self-referential cognition" right at the beginning?
> Perhaps!
>
> All the best--Pedro
>
>
>
> El 09/01/2018 a las 19:05, Bill escribió:
>
> > > Dear Pedro and Colleagues,
> >
> > I have been following the thread of comments with great interest,
> > all of which have all been occasioned by John Torday's profound insights
> > about the nature of evolutionary development in light of the importance of
> > cell-cell signaling and molecular biology. From the comments, it is clear
> > that there is a strong impulse to seek a means of integrating the role of
> > symbiogenesis, viruses and mobile elements, multilevel selection, niche
> > construction, genomic plasticity into a common narrative with an
> > informational perspective at its foundation.
> > In the spirit of that line of discussion, I am offering two
> > links that discuss evolution as an biologic information management system.
> > Some of this work shares direct commonality with John's, since he and I are
> > frequent collaborators.
> >
> > http://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/5/2/21/htm
> >
> > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961071730233X
> >
> > Both of these articles can be considered as complementary to
> > Pedro's very fine article, 'How prokaryotes ‘encode’ their environment:
> > Systemic tools for organizing the information flow', which is in BioSystems.
> >
> > I am grateful to John for inviting me to participate in the forum
> > and to Pedro for encouraging me to share these manuscripts.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bill
> >
> > William B. Miller, Jr., M.D.
> > 602-463-5236
> > wbmill...@cox.net mailto:wbmill...@cox.net
> >
> > >
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> Pedro C. Marijuán
> Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
> Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
> Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
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