Agential Topics: Heng's Karyotype Theory Jan. 8., 2025

Dr. Henry Heng presents a detailed and compelling thesis about two-phase evolution in cancer and in all life. In his view, critical information resides in the cell at the level of the conformation of the genome itself, and this information is sometimes scrambled and reassembled under stressful conditions, leading to macroevolutionary events. We discuss the implications of this theory for a cognition-first view of life.