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The essence of biological complexity is communication - a transmission of information between the component parts of an association. But what is the nature of this information and how do genomes co-operate to form a complex web?
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Complexity is all about the evolution of the possible. I initially planned a simple account of the physical properties of DNA but I soon realised that that the concepts of DNA as an informational codescript, the nature of information itself and the rise of biological complexity are intextricably intertwined. The final incarnation is very far from the book I'd initially conceived but is an amalgam of an intellectual journey that took me to places of whose existence I was previously unaware.
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A decision has just been reached that will give an amazing boost to our capacity to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. On 12th November, member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) signed off on the proposed space telescope called ARIEL, which has thus been given the green light for construction and launch. There […]
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Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, sheds some light on one of humanity's most enduring questions.
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The rapidly-increasing number of known planets has just passed the 4200 mark, according to NASA. The upshot of this is that we may now have enough planets to detect extraterrestrial life, even if we never discovered any more planets, which is most unlikely given that there are over 5000 additional ‘candidate planets’ awaiting confirmation. Discovering […]
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"Why do birds have wings?" "Why do eagles have wings?" "Why do penguins have wings?" "Why do ostriches have wings...?"
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