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Edward J. "Ted" Steele is an Australian molecular immunologist with interests in virology and evolution. He is an honorary research associate at the C.Y.O'Connor ERADE Village Foundation in Piara Waters, WA, Australia. Scientific interests Ted Steele hypothesized the RNA/RT-based mechanism of somatic hypermutation. This is known as neo-Lamarckism. Steele's hypothesis provided the first mechanism to explain Lamarckian evolution: when successful somatic cell changes occur due to environmental changes, copies of the copious new messenger-RNA that have been produced by the successful cells are picked up by harmless retroviruses acting as gene shuttles and transported across the tissue barrier – the Weismann Barrier – to the germline. Finally, the new genetic information is integrated into the DNA by a process involving reverse transcription. This process of writing or translating new information into the DNA provides the essential precursor to acquired changes being passed on to progeny; to the next generation, thereby demonstrating Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characters. Darwinian natural selection then goes to work on the progeny and subsequent generations: those fit for survival do so and those not fit die out. This recombination of Darwin and Lamarck by Steele has been described as meta-Lamarckism. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ted Steele clashed with the scientific establishment, particularly in the UK, over this hypothesis and his support for Lamarck's place in modern science. Steele has stated publicly in an interview with the ABC program Lateline that his controversial theories have had a strong impact on his career: "To be branded a heretic and a pariah meant that my career to keep doing research in this area were extremely limited." From 2010 to 2018, Ted Steele continued to explore reverse transcription as a mechanism to explain the emergence of complex retroviruses of vertebrate lines at or just before the Cambrian Explosion of ~500 Ma. Dismissal and dispute In January 2001, Steele made several allegations to the media in regard to 'soft' marking resulting in the upgrading of full fee paying international students. Steele was summarily dismissed by UoW's Vice-Chancellor Gerard Sutton, stating that the university's reputation was "placed at a serious and imminent risk as a result of Associate Professor Steele's claims." Steele declared his dismissal unfair and instituted legal proceedings. The case received wide media coverage. In August 2001, the Australian Federal Court found that the University of Wollongong had breached its staff enterprise agreement by not following correct conduct and dismissal procedures in Steele's case. Following the verdict Steele expressed publicly that he wanted his job back. On 5 April 2002, UoW Vice Chancellor Gerard Sutton acceded to NTEU demands and reinstated Steele to his position within the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wollongong. It was made public that Steele's reinstatement was unconditional and involved backpay. President of the National Tertiary Education Union, Carolyn Allport, announced the importance of the victory and precedent that the court's ruling set. "The NTEU has said all along that Dr Steele was dismissed illegally. The union's position has been completely vindicated by the findings of four judges of the Federal Court and Dr Steele's subsequent reinstatement. The reinstatement comes after a 15 month legal and political campaign by the NTEU. It is a victory for all NTEU members because it clearly demonstrates that university staff cannot be dismissed without a proper and fair hearing. This requirement is the fundamental protection of intellectual freedom in Australia's universities and the successful campaign to reinstate Dr Steele has reaffirmed that protection for all Australian university staff and for the community that our universities serve." The unfair dismissal issue was resolved on 6 July 2002 when Steele and the University of Wollongong came to a confidential agreement. COVID-19 In 2020, Steele, along with researcher N. Chandra Wickramasinghe and others, claimed in ten research papers that COVID-19 originated from a meteor spotted as a bright fireball over the city of Songyuan in Northeast China on October 11, 2019, and that a fragment of the meteor landed in the Wuhan area, which started the first COVID-19 outbreaks. However, the researchers, including Steele, did not provide any direct evidence proving this theory. The pseudonymous science blogger Neuroskeptic, writing in Astronomy magazine, called the meteor origin theory "so remarkable that it makes the others look boring by comparison". Selected publications Steele, E.J.- Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. 2nd Edition. Revised with an author's Postscript, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1981. Steele, E.J., Lindley, R.A. & Blanden, R.V. Lamarck's Signature: How retrogenes are changing Darwin's natural selection paradigm. Allen & Unwin, Frontiers of Science: Series Editor Paul Davies, Sydney, Australia, 1998. In the US, published by Addison-Wesley-Longman under Perseus Book imprint, Reading, MT, 1998 Honeywill, Ross - Lamarck's Evolution: two centuries of genius and jealousy. Pier 9 (Murdoch Books), Sydney. 2008 See also Marion J. Lamb Eva Jablonka References Further reading Aban Contractor (28 February 2002). "Axed academic treated 'worse than murderer'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, Australia: Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 28 February 2002. Retrieved 1 November 2015. Aban Contractor (29 March 2002). "Sacked whistleblower gets university job back". Retrieved 1 November 2015. Roger Lewin. (1981). Lamarck Will not Lie down. Science, New Series, Vol. 213, No. 4505. pp. 316–321. Michael B. Moll. (1983). Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution by E. J. Steele. The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 45, No. 3. pp. 174–175. Eric Nisbet-Brown and Thomas G. Wegmann. (1981). Is Acquired Immunological Tolerance Genetically Transmissible?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 78, No. 9. pp. 5826–5828. G. Lawrence Vankin. (1981). Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution: On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters by E. J. Steele . Systematic Zoology, Vol. 30, No. 1. pp. 111–115.. Discover the J Steele popular books. Find the top 100 most popular J Steele books.
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Breeds - Del-Reys Schwur
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Blutrote Seelen
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Real News
Scott StedmanDocumented Evidence of the TrumpRussia Conspiracy Investigative reporter Scott Stedman has made waves worldwide with his hardhitting investigative journalism, going as far as anyon...
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Amos J. Bruce and Franklin Steele, Plaintiffs in Error v. the United States
United States Supreme CourtThe writ of error, in this case, is brought upon a judgment obtained by the United States in the circuit court for the district of Missouri. It appears that Bruce, one of the plain...
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The Leprechaun
J Steele SandomireAn enchanted fable bout reconciliation and regret. Magical beings, and the mundane. Memories made and relayed by time and place, separation and joining.
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The Crest
Philip J SteeleTrista Bomstruck, a fifteen year old creative engineer, fills her daily life with amusing inventions. At the annual inventors’ festival, Trista is swept up in a war that her grandf...
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Waltraud H. Steele v. City Houston
Court of Criminal Appeals of TexasWaltraud Steele, Jutta Mozingo, and Robert Ingram sued the City of Houston for damages which they say they sustained when officers of the Houston Police Department caused the destr...
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Gemstone Guide Book
J. SteeleOver the years J. Steele has worked with some of the best gems God’s earth has to offer. He has now put this guide book together for all to use. This is a simple informative guide ...
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Cake
J Steele SandomireAn adventure of residents of the notorious Skid Row District of Los Angeles, following three close friends as they face a crisis above and beyond the usual cathartic atmosphere dwe...
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The Case Against the Democratic House Impeaching Trump
Alan DershowitzNew York Times bestselling author! One of America’s most respected legal scholarsa Democratexplains why impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump would be a bad idea for America...
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Houston Steele v. J. B. Gill Et Al
Supreme Court of AlabamaCOLEMAN, Justice. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing his cause "for want of prosecution." 1 Plaintiff prays for relief by mandamus if the judgment will not sup...
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Drink Driving
J Steele SandomireWritten while on vacation, about how the stars are so bright everywhere except for Los Angeles. Also, a weird evening where we got into all kinds of trouble, except the good kind. ...
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I Love You, Mary Jane
J Steele SandomireAn episode of my history with marijuana that requires some explanation
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Perfect Touch - Vereinigt
Jessica Clare & Kerstin FrickeAttraktiver Aristokrat verliebt sich in eigenwillige Gamerin wer hätte das gedacht?Wie konnte er nur einen so dämlichen Plan fassen? In seinem Heimatland will man den Adligen Leo ...
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Demonica - Razr
Larissa Ione & Bettina OderSo unendlich heiß wie die Hölle, verführerischer als der Himmel! Ein gefallener Engel mit einen Geheimnis. Eine Elfe aus einer anderen Welt, getrieben von einem unstillbaren Hu...
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The Fire Pump Room
J Steele SandomireA novelette describing the insane sounds heard all night long 400 feet from Skid Row, Los Angeles
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State of Louisiana v. Robert J. Steele
Supreme Court Of LouisianaSUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA 1980.LA.1640 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS, HONORABLE OLIVER P. SCHULINGKAMP. JUDGE.
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Perfect Touch - Untrennbar
Jessica Clare & Kerstin FrickeDiese Liebesgeschichte beginnt nicht mit einem OneNightStand, sondern mit einem OneNightFlop ...So ein Arsch! Anders kann Greer es nicht ausdrücken. Jahrelang hat sie zu Milliardär...
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Steele v. J.I. Case Co.
Supreme Court of KansasThe opinion of the court was delivered by This is an action to recover damages to crops growing out of a breach of an express warranty given on three new Case combines. The action ...
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Proof of Collusion
Seth AbramsonFor the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert ...
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Transit.
J Steele SandomireA collection of transition periods, brought together with the angry force of the subway's bellow, as it enters the station finding at least someone who has stepped over the yellow ...
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Amos J. Bruce and Franklin Steele, Plaintiffs in Error v. the United States
United States Supreme CourtThe writ of error, in this case, is brought upon a judgment obtained by the United States in the circuit court for the district of Missouri. It appears that Bruce, one of the plain...