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I. Gebeshuber, M. Mark O.:
"Superfast evolution via trans- and interspecies biocommunication";
in: "Biocommunication: Sign-Mediated Interactions between Cells and Organisms, Herausgeber: R. Gordon und J. Seckback", World Scientific, Singapore, 2017, (eingeladen), ISBN: 978-1786-340443, S. 165 - 185.

This chapter introduces to provide a thought model for the real
speed of evolution as a combination of selective, permutative,
and constructive elements. It introduces hypotheses on genetic
biocommunication within and across species and mainly deals
with the three types of adaptations in herbivores, carnivores, and
omnivores where biocommunication is of paramount importance:
adaptations in the food chain, adaptations to the environment
(historical, via selection), and interspecies competition. Two
major ideas are put forward in the chapter: firstly, a basic design
principle in organisms which ensures that parts of the genetic
code are interchangeable in single processing units that are readable across species, even across biological kingdoms.
Secondly, active (subconscious) selection of probability for the sex
of the offspring by parents (by females at the time of conception,
by males shortly before ejaculation) combined with continuous
adaptations of the genetic material in the sperm of the fathers. In
this way, evolution might be speeded up to the pace we experience
it in organisms with natural selection being only one important
aspect. One still can only speculate about constructive
elements of evolution, however, the hypotheses described in the
chapter definitely provide various reasons for starting intense
academic discussion. This book chapter attempts to do science in
a completely new way the authors like to call neo-Aristotelian. It
takes results from scientific investigations, and aims, via logical
thinking and extrapolation (and sheer judging in some cases) to
come up with a concise hypothesis on important elements of evolution.
Various experiments, which might prove or undermine the
ideas, are suggested in the course of the train of thought. The
authors look forward to future developments in this field, and
responses, results and reactions from fellow scientists.