Genome complexity; epigenetics: Lamarck is back (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, September 02, 2018, 15:24 (2276 days ago) @ dhw

TONY: I would lay even money that every single creature on this earth has some role, some fundamental function in the ongoing development of this planet. And that is something that CAN be tested.

dhw: And how do you propose to test the fundamental function performed by the millions of life forms (root types and their variants) that have disappeared?

DAVID: Evolution implies replacement and in the case of evolution from simple to more complex.

Agreed. How will that enable us to test the fundamental function performed by the millions of life forms that have disappeared?

TONY: Start by testing the ones that are currently living. How does their lives, input and output, impact the environment.

dhw: I’ll look forward to your findings, Tony! And I’ll look forward even more to hearing how you plan to test the fundamental function of all the pre-historic organisms that disappeared because their fundamental function was no longer fundamental, and of all the organisms that have disappeared during the modern age.

Already seen in the wolves Yellowstone studies.