The Darwinian Interlude: Freeman Dyson on the passage of evolution from what was a "communal affair" with cells sharing genetic information freely, to the Darwinian era in which cells started competing and gave rise to organisms, to current times, the end of the Dawinian era and the rise of "Cultural evoltuion", and back to "the ancient pre-Darwinian practice of horizontal gene transfer, moving genes easily from microbes to plants and animals, blurring the boundaries between species".

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