Genomic Potential Hypothesis
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Author_Christian Schwabe
Beneficial Mutation
Big Bang Singularity
Calcareous Microfossils
Carbonaceous Chondrites
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cellular biochemistry
Chaotic Attractor
chemical basis of species development
Circuitous
Cyano Bacteria
Damental Mechanisms
Darwinian Paradigm
Devonian Period
Duplication Cycle
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equilibrium kinetics
evolutionary mechanisms
fossil record analysis
Home Town
Huxleys
Lateral Gene Transfer
Life Forms
Lobe Fin
Lobefinned Fish
Mass Action Laws
molecular evolution
molecular genealogy
Nucleic Acid Core
Nucleic Acid Polymers
PCR Error
Relaxin Receptor
RNA Chemistry
Tree Shrews
Product details
- ISBN 9781587060441
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Genomic Potential Hypothesis is a biochemist's view of the origin, evolution, and development of life. Large numbers are second nature to a biochemist and though he rarely ever thinks of it explicitly, the concept of mass action is a part of the definition of chemistry. The origin of life, from that perspective, will turn into an event that occurs on the molar scale in units of 1023 and is driven not by needs of biological systems but by mass action, energetics, structure, and kinetics. This approach to evolution entails the total denial of constructive accidents. Mutations are a reality and while most of them are of no consequence or detrimental, one cannot deny that on occasion a beneficial mutation might occur. However, to invoke strings of beneficial mutations that suffice to reshape one animal into the shape of another is not merely unreasonable, it is not science. Evolution will be restricted to the reorganization of nuclear material in line with equilibrium constants and kinetic parameters that govern the quasi two-dimensional chemistry of nucleic acids. The actual evolution occurs at the cellular level and is noted only by the results appearing in the fossil record as small versions of the final form.
Christian Schwabe, Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.
