Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a
force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new
explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex through
evolution, this book offers an introduction to the key debates in
evolutionary theory, including the role of genes and sex in
evolution, the adaptive reasons for senescence and death and the
origin of neural information. The author argues that biological
complexity increased through the process of 'modularity transfer':
modular phenotypes (proteins, somatic cells, learned behaviours)
evolved into new modular information carriers (regulatory proteins,
neural cells, words), giving rise to new information systems and
higher levels of biological organisation. Modular Evolution makes
sense of the unique place of humans in evolution, both as the
pinnacle of biological complexity and inventors of non-biological
evolution.
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