The Role of Genomic Information in Evolutionary Biology

Genomics has been particularly valuable in evolutionary biology, because you can track the trees or roots of life. I think we can track the transitions, and that's where genomics is very valuable. The organization of the cell is itself inherited as well as the DNA. In a debate with Richard Dawkins last year, he put this lovely idea forward: We could recreate your genome and use it in 10,000 years to recreate you. My answer was which egg cell would you have to put that DNA in in order to recreate me? Would it be my mother's egg cell in which it might be reasonably close to me? Or would it be something else entirely, in which case it won't?

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