Biologic relativity: Who is the observer and what is observed?

Area of Science:

• Quantum Biology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Cellular Biology

Background:

• Biological causation requires understanding beyond overt appearances, analogous to quantum physics' explicate and implicate orders.
• Epigenetic inheritance variables significantly impact evolutionary principles.

Purpose of the Study:

• To assess epigenetic inheritance as a key evolutionary mechanism.
• To re-evaluate concepts like homeostasis, pleiotropy, heterochrony, and sexual reproduction under a new biological relativity.
• To explore the role of cellular information sharing and the cell's components in evolution.

Main Methods:

• Analogous exploration of quantum physics and biological phenomena.
• Conceptual framework integrating Bohm's implicate/explicate orders with biological causation.
• Analysis of epigenetic inheritance within a relativistic cellular context.

Main Results:

• Epigenetic inheritance emerges as a primary mechanistic principle of evolution.
• Biological concepts like homeostasis, pleiotropy, and heterochrony are reinterpreted as manifestations of biological relativity.
• Cellular information sharing and cell-cell communication are central to resolving biological ambiguities.
• The entire cell, including cytoskeleton and membranes, holds evolutionary primacy comparable to genomes.

Conclusions:

• Eukaryotic evolution is a continuous arc from the unicellular state, based on non-stochastic physiologic principles.
• Biological space-time is a relativistic frame where observer status within cellular contexts is critical.
• Evolutionary theory must incorporate cellular information processing and the physical cell structure alongside genetics.