Molecular Clock: An Anti-neo-Darwinian Legacy

A Neo-darwinian Commentary on Macroevolution.

Darwinian Anti-Aging Medicine

Two new movements vie for the attention of mainstream medicine: anti-aging medicine and Darwinian medicine. Each is based on the rejection of one of the major assumptions of medical practice and medical research. Anti-aging medicine rejects the basic assumption of conventional medicine that the deterioration accompanying increasing chronologic age is an unchangeable absolute.1 Instead, anti-agi...

Toward a neo-Darwinian synthesis of neoclassical and behavioral economics

There is a schism within economics between the neoclassical and behavioral schools. A primary cause of the behavioral ascent is the experimental evidence of deviations between actual behavior and the neoclassical prediction of behavior. While behavioral scholars have documented these “anomalies,” they have made little progress explaining the origin of such behavior. This paper proposes a biolog...

Molecular mechanisms driving Darwinian evolution

According to the Neodarwinian theory, biological evolution depends (1) on the availability of genetic variants, (2) on natural selection exerted on all available forms of life and (3) on geographical and reproductive isolation. The now available methodology of molecular genetics enables us to explore the molecular nature of genetic variation. It has become clear that many different molecular me...

Environmental Epigenetics and a Unified Theory of the Molecular Aspects of Evolution: A Neo-Lamarckian Concept that Facilitates Neo-Darwinian Evolution

Environment has a critical role in the natural selection process for Darwinian evolution. The primary molecular component currently considered for neo-Darwinian evolution involves genetic alterations and random mutations that generate the phenotypic variation required for natural selection to act. The vast majority of environmental factors cannot directly alter DNA sequence. Epigenetic mechanis...