Denis Noble

Jul 10, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Theo Zenou |Thomas W. Hodgkinson |Denis Noble |Lauren Young

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Theo Zenou & Thomas W. Hodgkinson, Nautilus“To understand why, we talk to Albert Read, author of The Imagination Muscle. He argues that imagination is intertwined with acts of creation, of which writing is an example.

May 27, 2024 | physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Denis Noble |Michael Joyner

The title of this Special Issue of The Journal of Physiology, ‘The Physiology of Evolution’, was chosen because only by reintegrating physiological processes back into evolutionary biology can evolutionary biology itself escape from the impasse into which a hardened version of the Modern Synthesis has led it (see Noble & Noble, 2023, specifically pp. 230−232, for the history of the hardening of the Modern Synthesis).

Feb 2, 2024 | physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Daniel Phillips |Denis Noble

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Dec 31, 2023 | physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Denis Noble |Daniel Phillips

The problem with Darwin and Wallace's (1858) theory of natural selection as a complete explanation for the Origin of Species is easily understood. A chance mutation affecting a single or extremely few individuals in a continuous population will be quickly diluted through interbreeding. This fact is also clear from the outcome of artificial selection. Breeders need to prevent interbreeding when they select new variants.

Nov 7, 2023 | physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Daniel Phillips |Denis Noble

Once sacrosanct and even referred to as the Second Law of Biology (Noble, 2013), ‘Weismann's barrier’, the conceptual barrier shielding germ cells from somatic influence, is now routinely challenged by reports of animals inheriting their parents' responses to lifetime experiences in taxa ranging from nematode worms (Rechavi & Lev, 2017) to insects (Maleszka, 2016; Xia & de Belle, 2017), rodents (Gapp & Bohacek, 2018; Wang et al., 2017) and even humans (Chong & Whitelaw, 2004; Wang et al., 2017).