The Fragility of Evolution: Re-envisioning Life's Creative Processes
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This work offers a new paradigm for understanding life and its dynamic capacity for change. Rather than focusing on the end result of evolution—"fitness"—it examines the process itself, which is inherently fragile.
Written in plain-spoken language and based on earlier scholarly work, it explores eight biological domains that reveal fragility as the key to novelty and transformation: 1) The dynamic genome, fluid and interactive with the environment; 2) Symbiosis, the creative merger of distin...























