IV. A New Conceptual Basis for Evolutionary Research in the 21st Century
In this part:
• A systems approach to generating functional novelties
• Reorganizing established functions to generate novelty
• Generation of novel components
• Retention, duplication, and diversification of evolutionary inventions
• The implications of targeting genome restructuring
• Can genomic changes be linked to ecological disruptions?
• What might a 21st Century theory of evolution look like?
• Where does evolution fit in 21st Century science?
General discussions of evolution, especially in the context of the “Intelligent Design” controversy, suffer from an unfortunate conflation in the minds of the lay public (and also of scientists) of three distinct questions: ...
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