Biology for the Soul
“We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living breathe on the burnished mirror of the world … ” W. B. Yeats
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The New Evolution
The emerging new paradigm of evolution reveals life to be far more self-regulating and symbiotic than previously envisioned by the ‘natural selection’ theory of neo-Darwinism.
The world is changing.
A transformative new understanding of genetics and evolution is replacing the traditional neo-Darwinian model that served as the foundation for biological theory since the discovery of DNA in the mid 20th century.
The implications of the new paradigm for all biological sciences – medical, environmental, agricultural, anthropologic – are sweeping and only beginning to be realized.
More important is the opportunity this presents for more meaningful philosophical and spiritual dialogue about humanity’s place in nature.
In the blog that follows I’ll explain the basic principles of this new paradigm of evolution and how they differ from the obsolete foundational model of evolution that has predominated Western culture and education up until now.
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The Next Enlightenment: Why Biology Isn’t Like Physics
To fully appreciate the intellectual disruption that’s underway in 21st century biological thinking, you need to go back to April 1953. That’s when the (still) renowned science journal Nature published Watson & Crick’s manuscript describing the helical structure of DNA, and how its ladder-and-wrung assembly of nucleotides might be the long sought biochemical template for transferring
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Multidimensional Evolution: The Decline and Fall of the Selfish Gene
“One of the things that molecular studies have reinforced is something that had already been accepted by modern geneticists: the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart disease, obesity, religiosity, homosexuality, shyness, stupidity, or any other aspect of mind
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