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Steele EJ, Gorczynski RM, Lindley RA, Liu Y, Temple R, Tokoro G, Wickramasinghe DT, Wickramasinghe NC. The efficient Lamarckian spread of life in the cosmos. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 2020; 106:21-43. [PMID: 33081924 PMCID: PMC7340397 DOI: 10.1016/bs.adgen.2020.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
In this Chapter we discuss the various mechanisms that are available for the possible transfer of cosmic microbial living systems from one cosmic habitat to another. With the 100 or so habitable planets that are now known to exist in our galaxy alone transfers of cometary dust carrying life including fragments of icy planetoids/asteroids would be expected to occur on a routine basis. It is thus easy to view the galaxy as a single connected "biosphere" of which our planet Earth is a minor component. The Hoyle-Wickramasinghe Panspermia paradigm provides a cogent biological rationale for the actual widespread existence of Lamarckian modes of inheritance in terrestrial systems (which we review here). Thus the Panspermia paradigm provides the raison d'etre for Lamarckian Inheritance. Under a terrestrially confined neoDarwinian viewpoint such an association may have been thought spurious in the past. Our aim here is to outline the main evidence for rapid terrestrial-based Lamarckian-based evolutionary hypermutation processes dependent on reverse transcription-coupled mechanisms among others. Such rapid adaptation mechanisms would be consistent with the effective cosmic spread of living systems. For example, a viable, or cryo-preserved, living system traveling through space in a protective matrix will of necessity need to adapt rapidly and proliferate on landing in a new cosmic niche. Lamarckian mechanisms thus come to the fore and supersede the slow (blind and random) genetic processes expected under neoDarwinian Earth centred theories.
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Affiliation(s)
- Edward J Steele
- C.Y.O'Connor ERADE Village Foundation, Piara Waters, Perth, WA, Australia; Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka; Melville Analytics Pty Ltd, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; GMDx Group Ltd, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Henan Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Biological Breeding, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, China
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- The History of Chinese Science and Culture Foundation, Conway Hall, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics, Gifu, Japan
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- College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka; Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics, Gifu, Japan; University of Buckingham, Buckingham, United Kingdom; National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
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Steele EJ, Gorczynski RM, Lindley RA, Tokoro G, Temple R, Wickramasinghe NC. Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases-Terrestrial or cosmic? ADVANCES IN GENETICS 2020; 106:75-100. [PMID: 33081928 PMCID: PMC7358766 DOI: 10.1016/bs.adgen.2020.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The origins and global spread of two recent, yet quite different, pandemic diseases is discussed and reviewed in depth: Candida auris, a eukaryotic fungal disease, and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), a positive strand RNA viral respiratory disease. Both these diseases display highly distinctive patterns of sudden emergence and global spread, which are not easy to understand by conventional epidemiological analysis based on simple infection-driven human- to-human spread of an infectious disease (assumed to jump suddenly and thus genetically, from an animal reservoir). Both these enigmatic diseases make sense however under a Panspermia in-fall model and the evidence consistent with such a model is critically reviewed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Edward J. Steele
- C.Y.O'Connor ERADE Village Foundation, Piara Waters, Perth, WA, Australia,Melville Analytics Pty Ltd, Melbourne, VIC, Australia,Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka,Corresponding authors:
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- University Toronto Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia,GMDx Group Ltd, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics, Gifu, Japan
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- The History of Chinese Science and Culture Foundation, Conway Hall, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka,Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics, Gifu, Japan,University of Buckingham, Buckingham, United Kingdom,National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka,Corresponding authors:
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Noble D, Blundell TL, Kohl P. Editorial. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 141:1-2. [PMID: 30902321 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Denis Noble
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, UK.
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- Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Elsasser Str 2Q, 90110, Freiburg, Germany.
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