Status Updates From Darwin alla prova: L'evoluz...

...Genes don't want to be selfish as Dawkins claims in his book The Selfish Gene, they want to evolve! That's the reason for sex, which is not at all selfish: With sex you immediately throw away half of your genome! Would you call someone who gives away half of her money selfish? Sex isn't selfish; it improves creativity...

...Our artificial software, our programming languages, are much simpler than DNA, and we know how they work, because we designed them and only half a century old not billions of years old. So instead of studying randomly evolving natural software DNA, we will develop a parallel theory, a theory of randomly evolving artificial software, randomly evolving computer programs. That's what metabiology is about...