07.24.08
Evolving to prevent or tolerate errors
Various Species’ Genes Evolve To Minimize Protein Production Errors
ScienceDaily (July 24, 2008) — Scientists at Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin have found that genetic evolution is strongly shaped by genes’ efforts to prevent or tolerate errors in protein production.
Stephen P. Smith said,
July 24, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Article reads: “It has long been believed that the main force of natural selection on protein-coding genes is the need to maintain a working protein,” says Drummond, a Bauer Fellow in Harvard’s FAS Center for Systems Biology. “Our work suggests that another force may be equally important: the need to avoid misfolded proteins resulting from errors in translation.”
To prevent errors is Yang-like, and so we see some vitality related to error recognition. To tolerate errors is Yin-like, and this has to do with an error recognition that is auxiliary to the Yang-like imperative. There is also a third level to error recognition, having to do with disclosure and offering up both felt imperatives to achieve the ontic meaning. Three levels of error recognition point to an innate vitalism, it permeates the small and the large.
nemo said,
July 24, 2008 at 8:13 pm
The data suggests a problem not yet solved, one that looks crypto-teleological.