/lit/ - Literature

>>16512558
You should fuck a fart

You should read this

>>16512665
What is it about?

>>16512692
Gene delivery can be seen as an artificial horizontal gene transfer, and is a form of genetic engineering. Meaning genes are not horny college students but engineers, deliberate and intentional. The successive discoveries surrounding Archaea, horizontal gene transfer, endosymbiosis, the microbiome and all the rest constitute a new view of life. If you enjoy science this is a must.

>>16512711
>Meaning genes are not horny college students but engineers, deliberate and intentional
care to elaborate? it seems interesting but it's a little bit confusing

>>16512711
No thanks, I'd like to stay retarded.

>>16512722
It’s just more questions. A lot of sedimentary rock is crumbling. The recent discoveries in genetics lead to more questions and more interestingly question we thought were settled. Such as gene transfer. In Darwinian evolution the transmission of the sperm is all that matters because in that model all life seeks to reproduce as means of survival, of the gene. Dawkins book The Selfish Gene is an entire system based on viewing life this way, of human evolution being in constant orientation to survival and therefore reproduction. Human beings and the history of the human being is oriented from the view that all
of nature is one big causal thread from microorganisms to the Human Being. Acts of sacrifice too were sublimated as proof of instincts in the species that make everything subservient to the survival of the gene. Human beings are no different as we share alot of genes with chimps for example. But we share more genes with Bananas. Are human beings also bananas? The human being has around 21000 genes. A rice seed has three times that many, so does that mean rice is more complex than the human being? A third of the genes in human beings are called “junk”, because we literally have no idea what it’s there for. More questions. The most interesting is horizontal genes transfer. So genes don’t just pass by reproduction, meaning there are genes in you that were not inherited, they did not come from your parents or your “ancestry”. Where did they come from? Well we know how they come, transformation, transduction, and conjugation- and what this means is that genes show up out of nowhere. What’s more is that the idea of life being a Darwinian process of natural selection still makes a lot of sense in the animal kingdom, but for human beings it’s entirely lacking, especially now that we are able to sequence genes, repair and even alter genes. Meaning we are attempting to make contact with the fundamental building blocks of life that appear to be engineering the transmission and selection of genes while we as human beings are also at the precipice of altering and mastering genes ourself. One wonders whether the guiding principle isn’t the same from first to last. What is a gene? What is DNA? More questions

>>16512574
You should suck your wife's dick you dick sucking fool.