Carl Woese interview (Introduction)

by BBella , Monday, May 16, 2016, 19:26 (3112 days ago) @ David Turell

I mentioned a comment from Woese a few days ago, which offered his point of view about evolution. He thinks outside the box. The discoverer of the third branch of life: Archaea. Turns out he doesn't think much of Darwin's thoughts:
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suzan-mazur/carl-woese-dies_b_2398491.html
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> "We have to try to discover the dynamic of the process of evolution, of the evolutionary process. For this the biologist needs a lot of help, particularly from mathematicians and physicists who are used to dealing with complex systems. Systems so complex they iterate by themselves.-The words in bold are simply not true. No-thing iterates by itself. Every-thing is a symbiotic process.