Evolution: A View from the 21st Century. Fortified.

James A Shapiro

Evolution: A View from the 21st Century. Fortified.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cognition Press
Country
Published
15 March 2022
Pages
702
ISBN
9781737498704

Evolution: A View from the 21st Century. Fortified.

James A Shapiro

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IT IS TIME FOR A NEW THEORY OF EVOLUTION BASED ON GENOMICS, NOT GUESSES

In 2011, James A. Shapiro’s Evolution: A View from the 21st Century proposed a revolutionary paradigm for understanding biological evolution: natural genetic engineering, not random accidents, produce genome change. In the 21st-century view, organisms are active participants in the evolutionary process.

Since then, climate change and multiple crises in infectious disease have given new urgency to understanding evolution. In this expanded 2nd Edition, Shapiro shares new evidence that living cells re-engineer their genomes in response to environmental challenges and disruptions to cellular reproduction.

From the classroom to the laboratory, conventional wisdom still paints evolution as the passive result of mutational accidents and natural selection. A modern vision of evolution recognizes that all living beings, from the simplest organisms to humans, actively modify their read-write (RW) genomes as they evolve.

In an unpredictable world, the ability to evolve actively is essential to survival. Today, understanding evolution is equally critical to our shared future.

Read this book to learn:

How interactions with other species, cells, and viruses shape an organism’s evolution
How better understanding evolution can help protect our health, food supply, and planet
How to apply lessons from molecular genetics and genomics wisely to benefit society

Written for both general and academic readers, the 2nd Edition includes:

Discussions of the latest thinking on evolutionary processes
Published scientific papers sharing key research from the past decade The full text of the 2011 edition with appendices

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