Natural Science Forum / Biology / Evolution / October 2005

In my sincere efforts to "get it" as to how NS (natural selection) and SoF
(Survival of the Fittest) work, I look at something like the AaD
(age-at-death) distribution curve of time of The Spanish Lady (the influenza
pandemic of 1918-1919)... and something just doesn't compute ...

Yes, science continues to reinforce the validity of the concEPT of
actention modules.
And, BTW, the same can be said for any concEPT, and for anyone's EPT or
EPT-aligned view/grasp of What Is going on.

There is an interesting article in PLoS Biology Dec 2004.
At least the title is interesting, and, I hope, correct:
  Mathematics Is Biology's Next Microscope, Only Better;
  Biology Is Mathematics' Next Physics, Only Better

Brain May Still Be Evolving, Studies Hint
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: September 9, 2005
Two genes involved in determining the size of the human brain have undergone

A "topical" essay, about future evolutionary developments:
``The Singularity is Nonsense''
- http://alife.co.uk/essays/the_singularity_is_nonsense/

what is the origin of thoughts?
scientists have been able to answer this simple question by giving many
hypothesis related to brain. but since they had proves against all of
there hypothesis they tried to explain in terms  of consciousness.

[moderator's note: There may seem to be an appeal to some sort
of "Design" argument here, but I really don't think so; I urge
people to read this fair-mindedly and by all means, let's leave
Design (but not design) out of it. - JAH]

I have a question.  I know cells have all of the information of your
genetic makeup stored in the DNA, but how does a cell know what to
form?  The cell always turns into whatever it needs to be, but what
makes some cells function differently then others?

Evolution is only part of the puzzle of life here on Earth.  Consider any
particular biota (animal + plants; predators + prey; any living thing + its
environment) what is IT doing?
I've been puzzling over this question, which may not seem obvious at first

Suggests tool use was before humans split off!
See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4296606.stm

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'Dead' DNA feeds deep sea life
Extracellular DNA plays a pivotal role in deep-sea ecosystems,
researchers report in
By Marta Paterlini

Uni offers alien degree
From correspondents in London
September 29, 2005
A British university has launched a three-year degree course in the hunt for

In this posting, I offer an electrical circuits analogy that may help
to explain (my current understanding of) the relationship between
Prigogine's theorem of minimum entropy production (MinEP) and Paltrige's
hypothesis of maximum entropy production (MaxEP).  This posting deals

Proceedings: Biological Sciences
ISSN: 0962-8452 (Paper) 1471-2954 (Online)
Issue: Volume 272, Number 1578 / November 07, 2005
Pages: 2277 - 2282