Month: November 2016
Epigenetics: Weak Model
“This is the new “Lamarckian” view that environmentally-induced changes in the DNA, often affecting the methylation of DNA bases, could be an important contributor to evolution. The problem with this is that these changes are not permanent, and are often effaced after one or two generations.
Red Rules – “…our visual system evolved to easily identify particularly nutritious berries, fruits and vegetables from jungle foliage,”
“We are particularly efficient at distinguishing red from green,”
Yikes! “The observable Universe might be 46 billion light years in all directions from our point of view, but there’s certainly more, unobservable Universe just like ours beyond that.”
From our best observations, we know that the Universe is an awful lot bigger than the part we can observe. Beyond what we can see, we strongly suspect that there’s plenty more Universe out there just like ours, with the same laws of physics, the same types of structures (stars, galaxies, clusters, filaments, voids, etc.), […]
