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There is a concrete paradox between the fundamental law, or profound assumption, of the survival of the fittest and the newly realized fact that all DNA does not code for proteins — it is “selfish” (Dawkins 1976) or to put it bluntly, as Orgel and Crick (1980) have done, is “junk”.
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Fröhlich, F. (1988). The Genetic Code as Language. In: Fröhlich, H. (eds) Biological Coherence and Response to External Stimuli. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73309-3_11
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