Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But after studying the rotifers, Meselson developed the idea of a silent mutation, a change in genes that has no effect on an organism.
An hour later and he might not have noticed the rock, much less stooped to pick it up. But the early morning sunlight slanting across the Namibian desert in southwestern Africa happened to illuminate momentarily some strange squiggles on a chunk of sandstone. At first Douglas Erwin, a paleobiologist at...
If consciousness is merely electrons passing from neuron to neuron, could all matter be in some sense conscious? All matter exhibits energy transfer of some type. Could the entire universe be conscious and yet unaware of it, just as the living individual cells in our brains, which have cellular consciousness...
"As exciting as Jurassic Park," ventures Cano -- and maybe then some. For the stunt pulled off by scientists in Michael Crichton's novel and Steven Spielberg's movie -- retrieving strands of dinosaur DNA from amber, then using it to recreate monsters from the past -- belongs to the realm of fiction...
Why is the oppositions to randomization so universal? Because students know that sharing of experience is only possible in an environment where there is a balance of likeness and difference, diversity and community, and where there is a commonality that is a living organism, not an artificial assemblage conjured into...