| Evolution: the dialogue between life and death. | |
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PMID: 9432633 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Organisms have the ability to harness energy from the environment to create order and to reproduce. From early error-prone systems natural selection acted to produce present day organisms with high accuracy in the synthesis of macromolecules. The environment imposes strict limits on reproduction, so evolution is always accompanied by the discarding of a large proportion of the less fit cells, or organisms. Sexual reproduction depends on an immortal germline and a soma which may be immortal or mortal. Higher animals living in hazardous environments have evolved aging and death of the soma for the benefit of the ongoing germline. |
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Authors:
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R Holliday |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life Volume: 27 ISSN: 0169-6149 ISO Abbreviation: Orig Life Evol Biosph Publication Date: 1997 Dec |
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Created Date: 1998-01-09 Completed Date: 1998-01-09 Revised Date: 2003-11-14 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8610391 Medline TA: Orig Life Evol Biosph Country: NETHERLANDS |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 623-9 Citation Subset: IM; S |
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CSIRO Division of Biomolecular Engineering, North Ryde NSW, Australia. |
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Aging
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physiology* Animals Death Evolution* Models, Biological* Reproduction |
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