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?
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 selecti...
