Life changes itself via genetic engineering: comment on "How life changes itself: the Read-Write (RW) genome" by James Shapiro.
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, OX1 3PT, England, UK. Electronic address: Denis.noble@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
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D000818:Animals; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics*; D042822:Genomic Instability / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval
Epigenetic inheritance; Genome evolution; Horizontal DNA transfer; Neo-darwinism; Symbiogenesis