Rapid evolution or epigenetics? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 01, 2011, 17:46 (4995 days ago) @ dhw

why not an inside intelligence? What would be the difference in procedure and outcome between chance or pre-programmed mutations and self-initiated mutations?-This suggestion is not really different from my theory that the UI has put into the evolutionary code, all the advanced planning for evolutionary complexity, to be tested against the geochemical change as the Earth also evolves.
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> (N.B. This would not, of course, solve the problem of the origin of life or of the mechanisms themselves. I am focusing only, and very narrowly, on the problem of innovations.)-See the following article, a primer on epigenetics:-http://www.the-scientist.com/2011/3/1/32/1/-These changes are inheritable. As are mutations caused by cosmic waves, or mistakes, or transposition, reduplications, or epigentic methylations, etc. But how to we suddenly have entirely new species? Darwin's guess is not supported in the fossil record as Gould has shown. Your focus on innovation is extremely important to the current discussions in science. And this is why Darwin may be totally wrong except for the modification of existing species to new environmental challenges.