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Researchers: Living Cells’ Cognition Drives Evolution

“Natural selection is cognitive selection,” they say, arguing that cells exhibit meaning and purpose, contrary to Darwinian evolution theories
Cognitive selection, as present even in the earliest living cells, directs the history of life in their view, enabling meaning and purpose. Read More ›