| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Darwin, the Modern Synthesis, and a New Biology -- Chapter 3. Cognition and the living condition -- Chapter 4. What is consciousness? An Evolutionary Perspective -- Chapter 5. Networking from the Cell to Quantum Mechanics as Consciousness -- Chapter 6. The Nature of information and its communication -- Chapter 7. The information cycle and biological information management -- Chapter 8. Communication and the accumulation of genetic information -- Chapter 9. Non-genic means of information reception and exchange -- Chapter 10. The primacy of the unicellular state -- Chapter 11. Phenotype, niche construction and natural cellular engineering -- Chapter 12. Holobionts -- Chapter 13. Four Domains: Cognition-based evolution -- Chapter 14. Reconciling physics and biology -- Chapter 15. What does this mean for evolution? -- Chapter 16. Conclusion: Cellular-molecular evolution in the 21st century |
| Summary |
There has been no mechanistic explanation for evolutionary change consistent with phylogeny in the 150 years since the publication of 'Origins. As a result, progress in the field of evolutionary biology has stagnated, relying on descriptive observations and genetic associations rather testable scientific measures. This book illuminates the need for a larger evolutionary-based platform for biology. Like physics and chemistry, biology needs a central theory in order to frame the questions that arise, the way hypotheses are tested, and how to interpret the data in the context of a continuum. The reduction of biology to its self-referential, self-organized properties provides the opportunity to recognize the continuum from the Singularity/Big Bang to Consciousness based on cell-cell communication for homeostasis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from title screen (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 9, 2020) |
| Subject |
Molecular genetics.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Developmental biology.
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Physiology.
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Biochemistry.
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Genetics.
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Biological Evolution
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Epigenesis, Genetic
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Molecular Biology
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Cell Biology
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Developmental Biology
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Physiology
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Genetics
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Biochemistry
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physiology.
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genetics.
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biochemistry.
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evolution.
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Philosophy.
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Developmental biology.
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Life sciences: general issues.
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Genetics (non-medical)
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Biochemistry.
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Evolution.
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Philosophy -- Reference.
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Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Developmental Biology.
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Science -- Life Sciences -- Anatomy & Physiology.
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Science -- Life Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics.
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Science -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
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Science -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Molecular genetics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, William B., Jr., 1951-
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| ISBN |
9783030381332 |
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3030381331 |
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