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Copper and the biological evolution

Biosystems, 1983
Copper is contained in a number of enzymes and proteins. A remarkable feature is that except for the electron-carrying blue copper proteins (azurin and plastocyanin) and copper-containing cytochrome c oxidase found in some cyanobacteria and some aerobic bacteria, all copper enzymes and proteins are found only in eukaryotes.
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The essence of biological evolution

Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk, 1983
The current state of the theory of biological evolution is reviewed. Evolution is compared with the cosmological processes of structure formation. Both occur in dissipative systems and are governed by export of entropy. The objections to Darwin's theory are discussed and rejected.
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Human evolution is biological & technological evolution

Biosystems, 2020
We are the human & machine species. The homo is just the inner part. The evolution of the human & machine species is oriented in time from the naked man to the man with progressively more powerful add-ons (artifacts, contrivances, devices, machines, science).
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Biological Evolution

2020
Biological evolution, the theory of natural selection and of common descent, is a triumph both of human reasoning and scientific undertaking. The biological discipline of evolution contains both a chronicle of human endeavour and the story of life on Earth.
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The evolution of biological macromolecules

Contemporary Physics, 1984
Abstract The red colour of blood has excited the emotions and interest of man since the earliest records of history, yet never has the most imaginative of the literati conjured up a proposal that this incarnadine hue could reveal a story of the evolution of all animals, going back hundreds of millions of years to a common ancestor (Thomas H.
J. E. Lydon, A.C. Tnorth
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The Biological Evolution of Consciousness

2018
This chapter is about how consciousness might have evolved, and why. It discusses phenomenal consciousness—the ways subjective experiences feel. The chapter points out that there are several ways that a biological trait such as phenomenal consciousness might have arisen during evolution: it might have been selected for because it performs an adaptive ...
Corey J. Maley, Gualtiero Piccinini
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Social and Biological Evolution

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1984
Evolution poses some very special problems in scientific methodology. This paper offers a new approach to these problems, based on a model which was born in the management sciences, but which applies to the evolution of social and biological systems alike. Details of the model are presented and its methodological implications are discussed.
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A Unifying Theory of Biological Evolution

2018
This chapter is an extract of the model on biological evolution reported in the book [Brender McNair, 2016a]. The focus here is on presenting the Mereon-related aspects of the outcome rather than the book’s details of a variety of theories on biological evolution, from Darwin and Lamarck till today.
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Economics and biological evolution

Environmental & Resource Economics, 1997
The employment of insecticides raises the relative fitness of resistant insects; the use of antibiotics applies selection pressure in favour of resistant strains of bacteria; lower limits on fish net mesh size raises the advantages of smaller adults.
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The Biological Conceptions of Evolution

1974
In biology the notion of evolution (1) means that the different forms of life actually have a structure and a position in nature which are due to a development from other forms. This development generally is called phylogenetic because it concerns the development of species, or phylogeny; in biology the notion of evolution is not related to ontogeny ...
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