BIO 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exponential Growth, Subatomic Particle, Reductionism
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Very important to understand natural selection, and kin selection. The reductionist pyramid and (chemical) organisms: reductionists explanation: start at subatomic particle physics and go through atom, molecules, cell biology, tissues and organs, animals, animal societies, and eventually end at human kinship-independent cooperation. Complex vehicles build by design information for the purpose of replicating that information: we can treat atoms as unitary particles. We can even treat small molecules built by those atoms as unitary particles. (reductionist explanation) these small (glucose-like) molecules can be built into polymers. They act as catalysts: catalysts (enzymes) take slow inefficient physical chemistry and transform it into rapid, simple biological chemistry, organisms consist of design information. Which is capable of building tools that include catalyst. These are structural molecules: vehicle consists of design information and tools (catalysts). A vehicle is built by design information, replicating over time.
