An important article on a new discovery about evolution: Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective
Discussed here at Darwiniana:
The eonic effect, control systems, evolutionary directionality
This remarkable article, Evolutionary control systems, is an opportunity to consider, or reconsider the issues of evolution, or micro/macro evolution in the light of control theory. This time without genetic support.
As we examine the transitions of evolution in the large the suspicion arises that at certain critical points a ‘control system’ analog (that is, control theory might not be exactly it, but roughly on the right track) operates in relation to microevolution as macroevolution. Many of the confusions of evolutionary theory disappear at once with such an approach. Currently biologists are smearing together these two different levels, with disastrous results.