Cognition-Based Evolution is the first comprehensive alternative to 20th-century Neodarwinism, proposing a radical 21st-century evolutionary framework with a novel point of origination: all cells are intelligent and must measure uncertain environmental information to sustain themselves. In Cognition-Based Evolution, life is defined by cognition. From this differential stance, evolutionary biology transforms into the science of why, how, what, and with whom cells measure and communicate under stressful environmental conditions. Life's context is uncertain environmental information, communication is its means, and genes are its tools. Evolution is its yield as continuous non-random self-referential cellular problem-solving.
Author(s): William B. Miller Jr.
Publisher: CRC Press/Science Publishers
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 258
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Evolution Recast
2. Neodarwinism: Evolution in the 20th Century
3. 21st Century Evolution: The Intelligent Measuring Cell
4. The Cellular Information Cycle and Biological Information Management
5. The Senome: The Cellular Connection with Environmental Information
6. The N-space Episenome: Concordant Cellular Information
7. Natural Cellular Engineering as Multicellular Problem-solving
8. Non-random Variations in Natural Cellular Engineering
9. The Virome and Natural Viral-Cellular Engineering
10. Holobionts: A Consensual ‘We’
11. The Role of the Microbiome in the Evolution and Development of Holobionts
12. Four Domains and the Primacy of the Unicellular State
13. Speciation
14. Sexual Reproduction and its Impact on Evolutionary Variatio
15. Extinction
16. Old Controversies Revisited—Where is the Cusp of Creativity?
17. The Primacy of Cellular Consciousness
18. How Might Biology Instruct Physics?
19. A Separation from the Past
20. Conclusion—The Intelligent Measuring Cell
21. Appendix: Differential Features Between Cognition-Based Evolution and the Neodarwinian Modern Synthesis
Index
