Epigenetics

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Epigenetics:

"All living creatures,

Being both entropic and anti-entropic,

Are, as Professor Waddington points out,

Forever altering th environment

At a faster rate than it alters itself.

And the ever more completely

Altered environment

Is, in turn, continually altering

All the creatures.

This external modification

Of living morphology

Waddington calls epigenetics.

This exponentially regenerative interplay

Is describable in information theory

As 'self-accelerating feedback'

And in nuclear physics it is manifest

As chain-reaction

And in an even more comprehensive way

It is manifest irreversibly

As a subfunctioning of universal evolution."

Citations

1. RBF Draft, BRAIN & MIND, p. 4, Feb'71