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| What is Life? | 21 Jun 2005 22:55 GMT | 2 |
Tim Tyler said,
I rather like the definition described by J. Maynard Smith
and Eors Szathmary - in "The Origins of Life", p.3:
``What is life?'' ...
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| Still Hot at Earth's beginning | 20 Jun 2005 07:04 GMT | 2 |
With all the new information coming in its more
and more easy to suggest a mild climate for early earth
Yet the evidence repudiates that. And I think it's time
for a reminder of the basics:
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| What is Life? | 20 Jun 2005 07:03 GMT | 6 |
PIP:
In my own area of interest, OOL, one encounters a variety of answers
to the question "What is life?" that seem to be based on what life
DOES.
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| What is Life? | 20 Jun 2005 07:03 GMT | 1 |
PIP:
Your argument seems to be:
Premise:
The sun is essential for life.
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| Article: Making Biological Computing Smarter | 17 Jun 2005 21:46 GMT | 1 |
Making Biological Computing Smarter
Tools for thought in the age of biological knowledge
By Nina Fedoroff, Steve Racunas and Jeff Shrager
Experimental biologists today sit at the edge of enormous bodies of
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| Paper: Stress-induced variation in evolution - from behavioural plasticity to genetic assimilation | 17 Jun 2005 21:46 GMT | 1 |
Proceedings: Biological Sciences
ISSN: 0962-8452 (Paper) 1471-2954 (Online)
Issue: Volume 272, Number 1566 / May 07, 2005
Pages: 877 - 886
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| RE: The Neo Darwinian secret argument ( was ReMine's secret | 17 Jun 2005 17:51 GMT | 1 |
CORRECTION:
> 1) All your proposed model copies must be fertile because all
> reproductives are born fertile where no infertile form can reproduce
> another infertile form. |
| There was never a moment in time when | 17 Jun 2005 17:51 GMT | 32 |
There was never a moment in time when life began.
OOL scenarios suggest that when a first replicator
replicates, and those survive to replicate again, and that
leads to life; then that
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| The Neo Darwinian secret argument ( was ReMine's secret argument) | 17 Jun 2005 01:13 GMT | 1 |
> GH:-
> Reproductive excess is defined as the production of more than one copy.
JE:-
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| Reproductive Excess: Walter's False Premise | 16 Jun 2005 16:42 GMT | 104 |
> . . . the cost of substitution is about
> one simple, unavoidable fact: Evolution requires
> reproductive excess. It always cracks me up when somebody places one
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| There was never a moment in time when | 16 Jun 2005 05:06 GMT | 1 |
I think you need to look again at crystal growth processes, bearing
what I've written here in mind.
 Signature
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| warmbloodedness | 16 Jun 2005 05:06 GMT | 1 |
Question: Did the transition to warmbloodedness possibly begin in the
bone marrow?
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| RE: Felsenstein and reproductive excess | 15 Jun 2005 18:55 GMT | 23 |
"Walter ReMine" <science@minn.net>
> Subject: Felsenstein and reproductive excess WR:-
Why do evolutionists allow the confusion to thrive?
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| Responses to assorted posts | 15 Jun 2005 18:55 GMT | 4 |
> The question is however: How did a sun forced chemistry lead to a
> system that could learn to adopt more efficient ways of organising
> itself by a process of trial and error? Tom has never answered that. Perhaps he never will.
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| HALDANE'S DILEMMA: Van Valen 1963 | 14 Jun 2005 06:42 GMT | 2 |
The American Naturalist Vol. XCVII, No 894 May-June,1963
HALDANE'S DILEMMA, EVOLUTIONARY RATES, AND HETEROSIS LEIGH VAN VALEN
Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology, American Museum of Natural
History, New York
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