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I did an interview with another geneticist Don Lotter who wrote a couple of
excellent papers on the perversion of genetic science by industry
http://permaculture.tv/don-lotter-on-agroecology-permaculture-and-earthaware/

A recent book, by University of Davis couple, have managed to “marry their
separate fields to argue logically for the use of GM technologies to improve
organic agriculture” Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the
Future of 
Food<http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrows-Table-Organic-Farming-Genetics/dp/0195301757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213293058&sr=1-1>

Lyn Margulis has an alternative view on evolution that is based on the
horizontal transfer of genes
http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/climatewar/blog/2009/11/30/democratic-carbon-carbon-dictatorship-the-climate-circus/


*Genetic Science & Engineering*: In the field of genetics and evolution,
there is a hegemonic paradigm that justifies BIG Bio-Tech and BG
Genetic-Engineering. In a recently published paper by Don Lotter, The
Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science – Part 1: The
Development of a Flawed
Enterprise<http://www.ijsaf.org/contents/16-1/lotter1/index.html>
 (PDF <http://www.ijsaf.org/archive/16/1/lotter1.pdf>) he thinks the basic
science has been molded in the interests of Monsanto and other Gene
Giants. Lynn
Margulis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis> whose work on Gaia
Theory (with James Lovelock) and Endosymbiosis Theory with their
implications that symbiotic relationships have driven
evolution<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis#Theory_of_symbiotic_relationships_driving_evolution>,
describes mainstream geneticists such as Richard Dawkins (author of The
Selfish Gene) “wallow in their zoological, capitalistic, competitive,
cost-benefit interpretation of Darwin - having mistaken him… Neo-Darwinism,
which insists on (the slow accrual of mutations by gene-level natural
selection), is a complete funk.” She thinks Dawkins-style of “Neo-Darwinism,
excessively focused on inter-organismic competition, as she believes that
history will ultimately judge them as comprising “a minor twentieth-century
religious sect within the sprawling religious persuasion of Anglo-Saxon
Biology.”

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