Origin of Genetic Information and Evolution of Biological Species

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Literature on the origin of life and the evolution of diverse forms of life is reviewed to provide an understanding of the current thinking in evolutionary science. There are conspicuous vagaries, inconsistencies and conflicts of ideas in evolutionary knowledgebase. Darwinism and neo-Darwinism thrive by literally sidelining and trivializing 'heretical' scientific discoveries capable of invalidating it. While punctuated equilibrium (PE) reflected in the fossil record is a strong negative evidence to the underlying principle of phyletic gradualism (PG) enshrined in the evolutionary theory, the phenomenon of cell-directed mutagenesis challenges another tenet of the theory, namely, the requirement of stochastic mutations produced by extra-cellular agents to create heritable changes in the organism. No attempt has been made to re-examine the theory dispassionately in the light of the rapidly changing particulate gene concept. More importantly, our knowledge of life and its origin hinges on

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