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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/84c984a7-19ea-43e8-a2b6-10442933a8b7/AECC0814-766E-45ED-993D-E3D29423A338/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/6D9C967C-253A-4968-9F41-1BF1A7554A73" alt="Stormy" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html"> If principles of life are universal, could life emerge on the internet?</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/before-evolutio.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/before-evolutio.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/before-evolutio.html"><P>Key to Nowak's model, published yesterday in the <EM>Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences</EM>, is the basic concept of selection and mutation
in the absence of replication. He called this period prelife, and
characterized it as a "generative system that can produce information."</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.wired.com/img/EE49A200-6603-4AE4-BE7D-D4E00D6FDFDF" alt="Alphaamanitinrna_polymerase_ii_comp" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html">
Indeed, <A href="http://home.planet.nl/%7Egkorthof/korthof77.htm">computer viruses</A> and <A href="http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/05/25/the-evolution-of-spam-consciousness/">e-mail spam</A>
have arguably displayed evolutionary characteristics. But Nowak was
more interested in the forms of social life produced by the internet.
"It's already an interesting phenomenon that allows people to function
in a different way," he said. "It leads to very different properties
than what were out there before."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/could-life-evol.html">Carl
Woese. "Man is the one who's undergoing this incredible evolution now,"
he said earlier this year in my article on <A href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/beyond_darwin">complexity and evolution</A>.
"We see some in the insects, but the social processes by which man is
evolving are creating a whole new level of organization." 
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