The Platonic Receptacle (Hypodoché), Whitehead’s Philosophy, and Genome Evolution

The discovery of a universal genetic code utilized by all existing organisms became the backbone of biology. The coding capacity underwent changes during evolution, but its main fluctuation results from its different reading and regulation. The genetic code thus represents a sort of receptacle of li...

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Autor principal: Svoboda, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5744155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29240702
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v9120381
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description The discovery of a universal genetic code utilized by all existing organisms became the backbone of biology. The coding capacity underwent changes during evolution, but its main fluctuation results from its different reading and regulation. The genetic code thus represents a sort of receptacle of living organism evolution. In this article, we propose an analogy between the genetic code and a broader Platonic hypodoché, a concept that Alfred North Whitehead used to explain various aspects of science.
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spelling pubmed-57441552017-12-31 The Platonic Receptacle (Hypodoché), Whitehead’s Philosophy, and Genome Evolution Svoboda, Jan Svoboda, Jan Viruses Commentary The discovery of a universal genetic code utilized by all existing organisms became the backbone of biology. The coding capacity underwent changes during evolution, but its main fluctuation results from its different reading and regulation. The genetic code thus represents a sort of receptacle of living organism evolution. In this article, we propose an analogy between the genetic code and a broader Platonic hypodoché, a concept that Alfred North Whitehead used to explain various aspects of science. MDPI 2017-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5744155/ /pubmed/29240702 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v9120381 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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