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ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2017

The evolution of "Life": A Metadarwinian integrative approach.

Arnold De Loof

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Article in Communicative & integrative biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Biomolecular Basis of Cellular Consciousness via Subcellular Nanobrains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  5. Nature, Calcigender, Nurture: Sex-dependent differential CaCommunicative & integrative biology · 2019
    Review
  6. Only two sex forms but multiple gender variants: How to explain?Communicative & integrative biology · 2018
    Article
  7. Senomic view of the cell: SenomeCommunicative & integrative biology · 2018
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Arnold De LoofFunctional Genomics and Proteomics Group, Department of Biology, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is undeniably very logical to first formulate an unambiguous definition of "Life" before engaging in defining the parameters instrumental to Life's evolution. Because nearly everybody assumes, erroneously in my opinion, that catching Life's essence in a single sentence is impossible, this way of thinking remained largely unexplored in evolutionary theory. Upon analyzing what exactly happens at the transition from "still alive" to "just dead," the following definition emerged. What we call "Life" (L) is an

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adaptationCalcigendercultural evolutiondefinition of LifeEESelectromeevo-devoMetadarwinismNeo-Darwinismselection

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PMID28702123
PMCPMC5501214

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