This is a dialogue with her on whether Darwinism requires DNA-based heredity. It ranges widely. We argue that the very notion of genes evolved from asymmetries in the physical properties of the molecules involved in early biological processes. For submission to Selection . The many discoveries of programmed cell death and the dynamics of science - the initial discovery of apoptosis in 1842, five years after the Cell Theory was proposed, was repeated 7 times till 1972, five years after the standard genetic code was worked out.
Apoptosis is perhaps the most widely researched topic in medical biology today.
I suggest a general schema of science as a dynamic cognitive system, and reinterpret the history of apoptosis in those terms. In conjunction with Ian Musgrave. There are also claims about the information content of molecular structures and functional pathways. The stability of the classification of Pinnipedia - There's precious little in the literature about how stable Linnean classifications are, and whether specialists can really identify specieswithout ambiguity. This will be a case study.