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ArticleBiology2016

Cognition, Information Fields and Hologenomic Entanglement: Evolution in Light and Shadow.

William B Miller

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Article in Biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Quantum entanglement and coherence in plant signaling networks: a theoretical framework.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2026
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  6. Biomolecular Basis of Cellular Consciousness via Subcellular Nanobrains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  7. Interspecies Communication in Holobionts by Non-Coding RNA Exchange.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  10. Senomic view of the cell: SenomeCommunicative & integrative biology · 2018
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  11. A systematic approach to cancer: evolution beyond selection.Clinical and translational medicine · 2017
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  13. Biological Entanglement-Like Effect After Communication of Fish Prior to X-Ray Exposure.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

William B MillerIndependent Researcher, 6526 N. 59th St., Paradise Valley, AZ 85253, USA. wbmiller1@cox.net.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the prime unification of Darwinism and genetics, the Modern Synthesis continues to epitomize mainstay evolutionary theory. Many decades after its formulation, its anchor assumptions remain fixed: conflict between macro organic organisms and selection at that level represent the near totality of any evolutionary narrative. However, intervening research has revealed a less easily appraised cellular and microbial focus for eukaryotic existence. It is now established that all multicellular eukaryotic organisms are holobionts representing complex collaborations between the co-aligned microbiome of each eukaryote and its innate cells into extensive mixed cellular ecologies. Each of these ecological constituents has demonstrated faculties consistent with basal cognition. Consequently, an alternative hologenomic entanglement model is proposed with cognition at its center and conceptualized as Pervasive Information Fields within a quantum framework. Evolutionary development can then be reconsidered as being continuously based upon communication between self-referential constituencies reiterated at every scope and scale. Immunological reactions support and reinforce self-recognition juxtaposed against external environmental stresses.

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cognitionDarwinismentanglementholobionthologenomeinformation fieldniche constructionquantum evolutionself-organizationzygotic unicell

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PMID27213462
PMCPMC4929535

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