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Biodiversity – Genes This Blog post #4 is entitled: Biodiversity – Genes. It follows our last post #3: “Biodiversity – Species” of this Biodiversity series. We acknowledge the NSW Health website as the source of the above image, “Figure 3: Chromosomes, DNA and RNA”. “The Hidden Universe” This post #4, Biodiversity – Genes, of our…
Biodiversity – Species This Blog post #3 is entitled: Biodiversity – Species. It follows our last post #2: “Biodiversity – Variety of Life” of this Biodiversity series. “The Hidden Universe” This post #3, Biodiversity – Species, of our Biodiversity blog series is inspired by Chapter 1 of Part One of Alexandre Antonelli’s book, “The Hidden…
Biodiversity – Variety of Life This Blog post, ‘Biodiversity – Variety of Life’. It follows our first post of this series, Biodiversity – Concept. This is Post #2 of our Biodiversity Series. The Hidden Universe This series is inspired by the book, “The Hidden Universe, Adventures in Biodiversity”, by Alexandre Antonelli, published in 2022 by…
Biodiversity – Concept The title of this post, Biodiversity – Concept, is intended to encompass a summary for the series of several posts on biodiversity and its distinct but complimentary components. This is Post #1 of our Biodiversity Series. Importance of Biodiversity I had been aware for some time that conservation of the Earth’s biodiversity…
Change of Plan A change of plan: my new post series on cooperation is postponed. Sustainability and Biodiversity of Life on Earth I recently stumbled upon a recent book dealing with sustainability and the importance of biodiversity to life on Earth. The book is entitled: “The Hidden Universe, Adventures in Biodiversity”, by Alexandre Antonelli, and…
‘Life Series – Final Post’ is the ninth and final part of our ‘Life’ Series This ‘Life Series – Final Post’ is our last post of our series on “Life” and of our discussions of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. To avoid spoilers we have decided to leave the last…
‘Do Living things have an Agenda?’ is Part Eight of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, ‘Do living things have an agenda?’, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Pross describes the teleonomic character of life as its most amazing property. But…
‘Life has Chiralty’ is Part Seven of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Life has Chiralty, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Life has chirality, or ‘handedness’. That is to say that many of the molecules found in living systems (biomolecules)…
‘Is Life in Equilibrium?’ is Part Six of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Is Life in Equilibrium?, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Andy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Pross introduced us to the idea that life’s organized complexity represents a thermodynamic puzzle. But related to…
‘Life is Diverse’ is Part Five of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Life is Diverse, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. While non-living diversity in the Universe is arbitrary, living diversity appears to be deliberate and coherent. But the macroscopic…