We have become surrounded by information technology our furniture includes iPods and plasma displays, and our skills include texting and Googling. “If you want to understand life,” Dawkins wrote, “don’t think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.” Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment. The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Already one of the world’s foremost evolutionary biologists, he had caught the spirit of a new age. ![]() What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a ‘spark of life.’ It is information, words, instructions,” Richard Dawkins declared in 1986.
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