Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-05 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Torday's work generally boils down to a concern for PREADAPTATION in organic evolution. This is a material necessity. Preadaptation has been ignored by the neoDarwinian evolutionary biologists, who have viewed their task to concern the dynamics of natural selection (even in simple models). So

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-05 Thread PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
Dear John and FIS Colleagues, Many thanks for this opening text of the NY Lecture. Indeed you have presented us an intricate panorama on one of the most obscure scientific problems of our time: the central theory of biology. As you say, we find with astonishment that there is literally no cell