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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	This is a very fascinating read. [quote]Woese's main theme is the obsolescence of reductionist biology as it has been practiced for the last hundred years, with its assumption that biological processes can be understood by studying genes and molecules. What is needed instead is a new synthetic biology based on emergent patterns of organization. [/quote] [quote]But then, one evil day, a cell resembling a primitive bacterium happened to find itself one jump ahead of its neighbors in efficiency. That cell, anticipating Bill Gates by three billion years, separated itself from the community and refused to share.[/quote] [quote]If the natural evolution of plants had been driven by the need for high efficiency of utilization of sunlight, then the leaves of all plants would have been black.[/quote] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20370 ___________________________________________________________________________ "Capitalism hears all prayers...." Lore Sjöberg Loading...
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