Open Pollen Press Post 0.06
excerpt from; Earth Dank Lit
Genes exist, express and propagate within ecologies. This holds true across scales of genetic expression, whether bio-molecular, cellular, multi-cellular, ecosystem or planet. “Genes are not the unilateral “controllers” of the cell’s “mechanisms.” Rather, genes enter into a vast and as yet scarcely monitored conversation with each other and with all the other parts of the cell” ( Holdrege and Talbott),1 the organism as a whole, and the environment.
There are innumerable feedback loops between the macroenvironment, the organism, the cell, and cell components, including DNA. An organism’s environment and its response to environment alter the organism, its descendants (epigenetics) and the environment. “(O)nce the genetic, cellular, organismic, and environmental complexities of DNA’s context-dependence are taken into account”…DNAs “read less like an instruction manual and more like poetry, in all their exquisite polysemy [multiplicity of meaning], ambiguity, and biological nuances” (Kay, Lily E.)2
The gene that thrives over time is not the one that out-competes, but rather those genetic arrays that are best able to symbiotically adapt to ever-changing stacked, multi-scaled environments. Genes gradually fit into a niche they participate in evolving. It is not the selfish gene that endures, but the genetic combinations most adept at symbiotically integrating into a dynamic ever-changing matrix. As with birds, it is the “flock,” and the totality of its symbiotic relationships, that evolves; the specie(s), and the biome. The individual is merely a mutant.
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