kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · edit-211 months agoIt’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for lifewww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down135file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkIt’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for lifewww.nature.comkalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · edit-211 months agomessage-square76fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999
minus-squareNational Meme Board of Alberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️@mstdn.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months ago@Meowoem Agree that genome reduction is the slower process, but it’s part of genome evolution, not only the more “energetically expensive” parts. “Quantitatively, the evolution of genomes appears to be dominated by reduction and simplification, punctuated by episodes of complexification.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201300037
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Agree that genome reduction is the slower process, but it’s part of genome evolution, not only the more “energetically expensive” parts.
“Quantitatively, the evolution of genomes appears to be dominated by reduction and simplification, punctuated by episodes of complexification.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201300037