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Author Miller, William B., Jr., 1951- author.

Title Cognition-based evolution : natural cellular engineering and the intelligent cell / William B. Miller, Jr
Edition First edition
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Introduction : Evolution Recast -- Neodarwinism : Evolution in the 20th Century -- 21st Century Evolution : The Intelligent Measuring Cell -- The Cellular Information Cycle and Biological Information Management -- The Senome : The Cellular Connection with Environmental Information -- N-space Episenome : Concordant Cellular Information -- Natural Cellular engineering as Multicellular Problem-solving -- Non-random Variations in Natural Cellular Engineering -- The Virome and Natural Viral-Cellular Engineering -- Holobionts : A Consensual 'We' -- The Role of the Microbiome in the Evolution and Development of Holobionts -- Four Domains and the Primacy of the Unicellular State -- Speciation -- Sexual Reproduction and its Impact on Evolutionary Variation -- Extinction -- Old Controversies Revisited-Where is the Cusp of Creativity? -- The Primacy of Cellular Consciousness -- How Might Biology Instruct Physics? -- A Separation from the Past -- Conclusion-The Intelligent Measuring Cell
Summary "Cognition-Based Evolution offers a 21st century alternative to traditional Neodarwinism: biological evolution is a reciprocating cognition-based informational interactome for the protection of cells from environmental stresses. All cells are cognitive, measure information, and communicate. To sustain themselves, intelligent cells deploy these faculties to work collectively, forming the basis of multicellularity. This coordinate action is natural cellular engineering, which propels biological and evolutionary development. In this modern paradigm, biological variations arise from coordinate cellular problem-solving rather than random genetic mutations. Genes are not evolutionary drivers but are flexible tools of intelligent cells in their confrontation with the planetary environment"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Dr. William B. Miller, Jr. is a graduate of the Six-Year Medical Honors Program at Northwestern University and is a member of the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors society. Thirty years of medical observations led to a conviction that the dominant assessment of disease causation and evolutionary development is insufficient, demanding a revitalized evolutionary narrative. Dr. Miller is an internationally recognized and widely cited evolutionary biologist and author and co-author of seven books on evolutionary mechanisms
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Subject Cytology.
Cells.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / Molecular Biology
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cytology
Cells
Cytology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781003286769
1003286763
9781000909166
1000909166
9781000909180
1000909182