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Andrzej T. Wierzbicki, "Dziedziczenie epigenetyczne" (2004) pdf

"Kosmos", Tom 53, 2004, Nr 3-4 (264-265), s. 271-280

"Jak granik rafę uratował" (2006)

kolejny przykład niemocy TE w przewidywaniu przyszłych zjawisk biologicznych (http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/nauka/1,34148,3099177.html)

Jerry A. Coyne, "Not black and white" (1998)

"Nature", vol. 396, 5 November 1998, pp. 35-36.

Paul S. Agutter and Denys N. Wheatley, "Foundationf of Biology: On the Problem of “Purpose” in Biology in Relation to Our Acceptance of the Darwinian Theory of Natural Selection" (1999)

"Foundations of Science" 1999, vol. 4, pp. 3–23. --- Abstract: For many years, biology was largely descriptive (“natural history”), but with its emergence as a scientific discipline in its own right, a reductionist approach began, which has failed to be matched by adequate understanding of function of cells, organisms and species as whole entities. Every effort was made to “explain” biological phenomena in physico-chemical terms. It is argued that there is and always has been a clear distinction between life sciences and physical sciences, explicit in the use of the word biology. If this distinction is real, it implies that biological phenomena can never be entirely satisfactorily explained in terms of extant physicochemical laws. One notable manifestation of this is that living organisms appear to – actually do – behave in purposeful ways, and the inanimate universe does not. While this fundamental difference continues to be suppressed, the “purposiveness” (or teleology) which pervades biology remains anathema to almost all scientists (including most biologists) even to the present day. We argue here that it can, however, become a perfectly tenable position when the Theory of Natural Selection is accepted as the main foundation, the essential tenet, of biology that distinguishes it from the realm of physical sciences. In accepting this position, it remains quite legitimate to expect that in many but not all circumstances, extant physical laws (and presumably others still to be discovered) are in no way breached by biological systems, which cannot be otherwise since all organisms are composed of physical material. --- KEY WORDS: teleology, purpose, function, cause-effect, natural selection, biology

Roger Trigg, "Darwin 1809-1882" (1999)

z: Roger Trigg, Ideas of Human Nature. An Historical Introduction, Blackwell Publishing 1999 (1st ed. 1988), s. 109-123.

Jakub Kwintkiewicz, "Ruchome elementy genetyczne" (2001)

"Nowiny Lekarskie" 2001, t. 70, nr 8, s. 940–947.

John F. Brookfield, "Predicting the future" (2001)

"Nature" 28 June 2001, vol. 411, p. 999. --- "The idea of fitness is central to evolutionary biology..."

Evgeniy S. Balakirev, Francisco J. Ayala, "Pseudogenes: Are They 'Junk' or Functional DNA?" (2003) pdf

Annual Review of Genetics, 2003, vol. 37, p. 123- 151

J.T. Trevors, D.L. Abel, "Chance and necessity do not explain the origin of life" (2004)

Cell Biology International 2004, vol. 28, pp. 729-739. --- Abstract. --- Where and how did the complex genetic instruction set programmed into DNA come into existence? The genetic set may have arisen elsewhere and was transported to the Earth. If not, it arose on the Earth, and became the genetic code in a previous lifeless, physicalechemical world. Even if RNA or DNA were inserted into a lifeless world, they would not contain any genetic instructions unless each nucleotide selection in the sequence was programmed for function. Even then, a predetermined communication system would have had to be in place for any message to be understood at the destination. Transcription and translation would not necessarily have been needed in an RNA world. Ribozymes could have accomplished some of the simpler functions of current protein enzymes. Templating of single RNA strands followed by retemplating back to a sense strand could have occurred. But this process does not explain the derivation of ‘‘sense’’ in any strand. ‘‘Sense’’ means algorithmic function achieved through sequences of certain decision-node switch-settings. These particular primary structures determine secondary and tertiary structures. Each sequence determines minimum-free-energy folding propensities, binding site specificity, and function. Minimal metabolism would be needed for cells to be capable of growth and division. All known metabolism is cybernetic e that is, it is programmatically and algorithmically organized and controlled.

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H. Allen Orr, "The Genetic Theory of Adaptation: A Brief History" (2005)

"Nature Reviews/Genetics" February 2005, vol. 6, s. 119-127.

Guillermo Gonzalez, "Habitable Zones in the Universe" (2005)

Comments: 71 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; to be published in "Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres" --- Abstract: --- Habitability varies dramatically with location and time in the universe. This was recognized centuries ago, but it was only in the last few decades that astronomers began to systematize the study of habitability. The introduction of the concept of the habitable zone was key to progress in this area. The habitable zone concept was first applied to the space around a star, now called the Circumstellar Habitable Zone. Recently, other, vastly broader, habitable zones have been proposed. We review the historical development of the concept of habitable zones and the present state of the research. We also suggest ways to make progress on each of the habitable zones and to unify them into a single concept encompassing the entire universe.

Bruce J. McFadden, "Fossil Horses - Evidence for Evolution" (2005)

"Science" 18 March 2005, vol. 307, s. 1728-1730. --- Abstract --- The modern day horse Equus is a beloved icon but also, thanks to its many fossil relatives, has proved valuable for understanding macroevolution (that is, the long-term evolution of species). In his Perspective, MacFadden discusses fossil evidence supporting a branching family tree for the Family Equidae and points out why horse fossils have been beneficial for understanding evolution.

Fyodor A. Kondrashov, "In search of the limits of evolution" pdf (2005)

Nature Genetics January 2005, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 9-10; http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v37/n1/pdf/ng0105-9.pdf

Axel Meyer, "On the Importance of Being Ernst Mayr" pdf (2005)

"PLoS Biology" May 2005, vol. 3, issue 5, e152, pp. 0100-0102; http://biology.plosjournals.org/archive/1545-7885/3/5/pdf/10.1371_journal.pbio.0030152-p-S.pdf

S. Goodacre, A. Helgason, J. Nicholson, L. Southam, L. Ferguson, E. Hickey, E. Vega, K. Stefánsson, R. Ward, and B. Sykes, "Genetic evidence for a family-based Scandinavian settlement of Shetland and Orkney during the Viking periods" (2005) pdf

"Heredity" 2005, s. 1-7; http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/hdy/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/6800661a.html&filetype=pdf --- Abstract --- The Viking age witnessed the expansion of Scandinavian invaders across much of northwestern Europe. While Scandinavian settlements had an enduring cultural impact on North Atlantic populations, the nature and extent of their genetic legacy in places such as Shetland and Orkney is not clear. In order to explore this question further, we have made an extensive survey of both Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in the North Atlantic region. Our findings indicate an overall Scandinavian ancestry of »44% for Shetland and »30% for Orkney, with approximately equal contributions from Scandinavian male and female subjects in both cases. This contrasts with the situation for the Western Isles, where the overall Scandinavian ancestry is less (»15%) and where there is a disproportionately high contribution from Scandinavian males. In line with previous studies, we find that Iceland exhibits both the greatest overall amount of Scandinavian ancestry (55%) and the greatest discrepancy between Scandinavian male and female components. Our results suggest that while areas close to Scandinavia, such as Orkney and Shetland, may have been settled primarily by Scandinavian family groups, lone Scandinavian males, who later established families with female subjects from the British Isles, may have been prominent in areas more distant from their homeland.

W. Martin, "Molecular evolution: Lateral gene transfer and other possibilities" (2005) pdf

"Heredity" June 2005, Volume 94, Number 6, Pages 565-566.

Sudhir Kumar, Alan Filipski, Vinod Swarna, Alan Walker, and S. Blair Hedges, "Placing confidence limits on the molecular age of the human–chimpanzee divergence" (2005)

PNAS December 27, 2005, vol. 102, no. 52, s. 18842–18847, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0509585102v1

J. Philippe Rushton. Race Evolution and Behavior. Skrócone.

J. Philippe Rushton. Race Evolution and Behavior: A Life History Perspective. 2nd spec. ab. ed. Transaction Publishers 2000.

Kevin MacDonald, The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (1998, 2002) pdf

Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840, (562) 985-8183; książka o objętości 541 stron.

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