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In this chapter we discuss the possibility to apply the quantum formalism to model biological evolution, especially at the cellular level—genetic and epigenetic evolutions. We start with an extended historical introduction which can be useful for non-biologists, physicists, mathematicians, psychologists, sociologists. In particular, detailed comparative analysis of Darwinism and Lamarckism is presented. We discuss the process of elimination of the Lamarckian viewpoint from evolutionary biology and its sudden reappearance in theory of epigenetic evolution. One of the main messages of this chapter is that the ideology of quantum adaptive dynamics (and, in particular, of theory of open quantum systems) matches perfectly with both approaches (Darwinism and Lamarckism) and it can be used to unify them in a new general theory, theory of quantum adaptive evolution.
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Notes
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We remind that quantum-like (QL) states are information states representing probabilistic information about possible measurements on bio-systems, including self-measurements.
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The famous sole illustration of the “Origin of Species” shows a Tree of Life (or more precisely, a series of trees presumably depicting the evolution of different divisions of organisms).
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Here we follow the presentation from the work [13] of Vasily Ogryzko . He was one of the pioneers in attempts to use quantum physics to model cellular evolution.
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He used a mutation that would enable the cells to grow on lactose, reverting a previously inactive \(\beta \)-galactosidase gene back to its wild type, Chap. 5.
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Asano, M., Khrennikov, A., Ohya, M., Tanaka, Y., Yamato, I. (2015). Operational Approach to Modern Theory of Evolution. In: Quantum Adaptivity in Biology: From Genetics to Cognition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9819-8_7
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