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Bullet Annotate Reference
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References
- ↑ Rose S. (1999) Précis of Lifelines: Biology, freedom, determinism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22:871-921. PMID 11301572.
- From Abstract:
- DNA is not a blueprint, and the four dimensions of life (three of space, one of time) cannot be read off from its one-dimensional strand.
- Both developmental and evolutionary processes are more than merely instructive or selective; the organism constructs itself, a process known as autopoiesis, through a lifeline trajectory.
- Because organisms are thermodynamically open systems, living processes are homeodynamic, not homeostatic.
- The self-organising membrane-bound and energy-utilising metabolic web of the cell must have evolved prior to socalled naked replicators.
- Evolution is constrained by physics, chemistry, and structure; not all change is powered by natural selection, and not all phenotypes are adaptive.
- Finally, therefore, living processes are radically indeterminate; like all other living organisms, but to an even greater degree, we make our own future, though in circumstances not of our own choosing.