RE: 'Directed' evolution?

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:14:23 -0500

At 02:41 PM 9/22/98 -0700, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
>At 12:36 PM 9/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>That would depend upon what is meant by "added information." Would a
>>protein with a new function, a function that never existed before, a
>>function that never could have existed before, be an example of "added
>>information"? If so, then I can give four examples.
>
>Using Spetners definition (his expertise is in information theory) of what
>constitutes new information (and he deals in his book with each of the
>cases you suggest), none of these meet the criteria of new information.
>Either they exploit information that is already in the genome, but
>inactive, or they involve a loss of information that decreases specificity.
> You can test your ideas against his very careful explanations, if you wish.

I still have yet to read Spetner's book (I have such a huge pile of unread
material). Can you give a clear (and hopefully mathematical) definition of
information as used by Spetner?
glenn

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