Puzzles in modern biology. II. Language, cancer and the recursive processes of evolutionary innovation

Abstract excerpt

Human language emerged abruptly. Diverse body forms evolved suddenly. Seed-bearing plants spread rapidly. How do complex evolutionary innovations arise so quickly? Resolving alternative claims remains difficult. The great events of the past happened a long time ago. Cancer provides a model to study evolutionary innovation. A tumor must evolve many novel traits to become an aggressive cancer. I use what we know or...

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• Biological Evolution
• Clonal Evolution
• Gene Expression Regulation
• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
• Information Theory
• Models, Genetic
• Mutation
• Neoplasms

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Literature Corpus work

1f5c05b0-2bc3-5db2-a719-e36d5ac21523

DOI

10.12688/f1000research.9568.1