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[Bonner(2001)] has pointed out the key importance of inventing a stimulus-response system for the evolution of live on earth, in addition to metabolism and replication. As incessant responsiveness [West-Eberhard(2003)] and the basis of signalling it has come to be a characteristic of life on earth. Not all organismal responses to external stimuli are simple reactive responses, but behaviour generally depends also on the organism’s internal state - and this state can reflect environmental processes as is the case in biological clocks (section 4.2.1) - such internalisation can be evolutionarily advantageous in noisy environments.
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Knabe, J.F. (2013). Biological Clocks and Differentiation. In: Computational Genetic Regulatory Networks: Evolvable, Self-organizing Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 428. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30296-1_4
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