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HOW INFORMATION APPEARS IN LIVING THINGS BY EVOLUTION
In 2000 I published a short paper, "Evolution of Biological Information" (Nucleic Acids Res, 28: 2794-2799, 2000), which shows how standard evolution (replication, mutation and natural selection) increases the information in DNA. The results match those observed in nature, namely that the amount of information in binding sites for genetic control proteins on DNA (measured in bits) climbs and then fluctuates around the amount needed to find those sites in the genome. The mathematics comes from Claude Shannon who founded information theory, and it is the same mathematics that forms the basis of all of our modern communications systems.
There is now a java version of the program, Evj, that you can run on any computer to see the evolution happen in a few seconds.
cdk007 made a video describing the program, "How Evolution Causes an Increase in Information, Part II" but more could be done to display the evolution. Would someone like to make a video?
In 2000 I published a short paper, "Evolution of Biological Information" (Nucleic Acids Res, 28: 2794-2799, 2000), which shows how standard evolution (replication, mutation and natural selection) increases the information in DNA. The results match those observed in nature, namely that the amount of information in binding sites for genetic control proteins on DNA (measured in bits) climbs and then fluctuates around the amount needed to find those sites in the genome. The mathematics comes from Claude Shannon who founded information theory, and it is the same mathematics that forms the basis of all of our modern communications systems.
There is now a java version of the program, Evj, that you can run on any computer to see the evolution happen in a few seconds.
cdk007 made a video describing the program, "How Evolution Causes an Increase in Information, Part II" but more could be done to display the evolution. Would someone like to make a video?
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tomdschneider
(1 month ago)
spark300c, read the paper.
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spark300c
(1 month ago)
It Just Dawn on me your are the one who made program using Extremely intense form of natural selection which can be called Truncation selection. what will happen if you simulated RNA virus. Because of RNA virus high mutation rate the genomes sizes are limited because the larger genome higher the mutation rate. Plus the effect of some mutations go down. Natural selection efficiency goes down and RNA virus will go into mutation melt down.
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ChuckyJesus666
(6 months ago)
Thanks for showing me the program....uber cool :-)
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tomdschneider
(10 months ago)
cfmmrjeff, the answer to your question is that the program is not about speciation. However, much speciation probably comes about by changes in genetic control systems. Humans and primates all have hemoglobin, myosin, etc etc - so we differ mostly by the development of the genes. The details are now being worked out.
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cfmmrjeff
(11 months ago)
I understand how this medium is not the best for discussion. This is why I look at it as a way to present small bits of 'information' that can instigate thought. And such was the "pause" video clip.
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cfmmrjeff
(11 months ago)
How does the computer program prove the transition from one kind of animal into another WOULD ACTUALLY take place? The Urey Miller experiment worked in "theory" but only produced part. No life created, even if the exp. had done so it would prove it takes intelligence to make life. A program can demonstrate only what the intelligence installed inside the system. It cannot demonstrate that it DID take place or WOULD take place in nature apart from intelligence.
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Desertphile
(1 year ago)
Thank you very much for the URL: I have been interested in the subject of "information" in DNA for several months.
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