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| author | Lars H. Hasselby |
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| contents | <p>In This Essay I Examine the Hereditary Mass and Its Two Ingenious Forms. I<br>Use the Threshold Model as an Analytical Tool.</p> <p>This essay presents an alternative understanding of inheritance based on the threshold<br>model. Starting from the cell as an autonomous, self-sustaining continuum, it is argued<br>that the hereditary mass consists of two forms: material inheritance (proteins, RNA, lipids,<br>glycans, DNA) and continuum inheritance (the cell’s own recycling of itself). The zygote<br>is understood not as a beginning, but as a continuation—an already existing continuum<br>that receives new material and thereby becomes a new entity. DNA is placed as a passive<br>recipe book, activated only when the continuum crosses a threshold. The model fulfills the<br>threshold model’s requirements on all parameters and is thus logically consistent with a<br>principle that applies across physics, chemistry, and biology.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Allow Me to Reformulate Biology Lars H. Hasselby <p>In This Essay I Examine the Hereditary Mass and Its Two Ingenious Forms. I<br>Use the Threshold Model as an Analytical Tool.</p> <p>This essay presents an alternative understanding of inheritance based on the threshold<br>model. Starting from the cell as an autonomous, self-sustaining continuum, it is argued<br>that the hereditary mass consists of two forms: material inheritance (proteins, RNA, lipids,<br>glycans, DNA) and continuum inheritance (the cell’s own recycling of itself). The zygote<br>is understood not as a beginning, but as a continuation—an already existing continuum<br>that receives new material and thereby becomes a new entity. DNA is placed as a passive<br>recipe book, activated only when the continuum crosses a threshold. The model fulfills the<br>threshold model’s requirements on all parameters and is thus logically consistent with a<br>principle that applies across physics, chemistry, and biology.</p> |
| title | Allow Me to Reformulate Biology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19593174 |