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Comment on Book Review of `Quantum Evolution' (Johnjoe McFadden) by Mathew J. Donald

Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili

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This paper is a response to the critical review by Mathew J. Donald of the popular science book 'Quantum Evolution' by Johnjoe McFadden and our earlier paper (by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili), in which we propose a quantum mechanical explanation for certain types of mutation. We here address Donald's criticisms and reassert our proposal.

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comment on book review quant-ph/0101019, 5 pages
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    • The abstract maybe a tad general, but the paper specifically refers to the movement of a single proton : " As initially proposed by Delbruck et al. (1935) and Schrodinger (1944) and Watson and Crick (1953), spontaneous mutations are initiated by quantum jump events such as…

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