Just a few short comments in response to Mark & John:
We definitely must reconsider the logic of biology! To start with, we must
abandon the Aristotelian prohibition of circular causality, as Alicia
Juarrero suggests. Life is all about recursion! Then there's the inherent
dialectical nature of
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
Dear John,
Thank you very much for this - a great way to start the new year!
I'd like to ask about "communication" - it's a word which is
understood in many different ways, and in the context of cells, is
hard to imagine.
When you suggest that “the unicellular state delegates its progeny to
