Reviewing Ernest Everett Just’s BIOLOGY OF THE CELL SURFACE (1939) and related literature, plus annotated references, hereby advancing evolutionary biology and evolutionary bioethics

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Theodore Walker Jr., Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas USA

Abstract
The Biology of the Cell Surface (1939a) by Ernest Everett Just is focused on marine egg cells and egg cell surfaces. By studying egg cells, and cell surface mediated co-operation with sperm and environment, E. E. Just advanced egg cell fertilization and developmental biology, including embryo morphogenesis, ecological developmental (eco-devo) biology, and theory of evolution. According to Just, from cells to humans, development and evolution require co-operative behavior. In developmental biology, Just observed that co-operative behavior is essential to animal development from a single egg cell. In evolutionary biology, Just reasoned that co-operative behavior is essential to evolution from our common unicellular ancestor. And in evolutionary bioethics, Just tied evolutionary biology to evolutionary ethics by reference to evolution from a common unicellular ancestor with cell surface mediated co-operative interactions with the environment. In accordance with the “law of environmental dependence,” evolutionary bioethics must also be environmental bioethics. Even though E. E. Just may have overestimated cell surface influences, he correctly estimated the developmental potence and the evolutionary potence of the whole living cell interacting co-operatively with its life-inspiring environment.

Keywords
Stammzell, stem cell, common unicellular ancestor, egg cell, cell surface behavior, interaction, co-operation, social instinct, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary bioethics, law of environmental dependence, environmental bioethics.

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Theodore Walker Jr., Reviewing Ernest Everett Just’s BIOLOGY OF THE CELL SURFACE (1939) and related literature, plus annotated references, hereby advancing evolutionary biology and evolutionary bioethics , SCIREA Journal of Health. Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2021 | PP. 123-144. 10.54647/pmh33179

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[ 67 ] Shah, Hiral, Gautam Dey and Omaya Dudin. (5 January 2021). “Tracing the History of Animal Origins” is a review of the posted on 10 November 2020 preprint (not yet peer reviewed) of “The Single-Celled Ancestors of Animals: A History of Hypotheses” (5 November 2020) by Thibaut Brunet and Nicole King, in preLights, Preprint Highlights Selected by the Biological Community, online at https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/the-single-celled-ancestors-of-animals-a-history-of-hypotheses/. (Accessed 18 September 2021.)
[ 68 ] Takahashi Kazutoshi, and Shinya Yamanaka. (25 August 2006). “Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors” in Cell, volume 126, pages 663-676, online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2006.07.024. (Accessed 12 September 2021.) [“Summary - Differentiated cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic-like state by transfer of nuclear contents into oocytes or by fusion with embryonic stem (ES) cells. Little is known about factors that induce this reprogramming. Here, we demonstrate induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic or adult fibroblasts by introducing four factors, Oct3/4, Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4, under ES cell culture conditions. Unexpectedly, Nanog was dispensable. These cells, which we designated iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cells, exhibit the morphology and growth properties of ES cells and express ES cell marker genes. Subcutaneous transplantation of iPS cells into nude mice resulted in tumors containing a variety of tissues from all three germ layers. Following injection into blastocysts, iPS cells contributed to mouse embryonic development. These data demonstrate that pluripotent stem cells can be directly generated from fibroblast cultures by the addition of only a few defined factors.”]
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[ 70 ] Walker, Theodore, Jr. (January 2020). “The Bioethical Significance of ‘The Origin of Man’s Ethical Behavior’ (October 1941, unpublished) by Ernest Everett Just and Hedwig Anna Schnetzler Just” in the Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science, volume 18, issue 1, article 4, online at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/jscas/vol18/iss1/4. (Accessed 17 September 2021.) [Abstract – “E. E. Just (1883-1941) is an acknowledged “pioneer” in cell biology, and he is perhaps the pioneer in study of egg cell fertilization. Here we discover that Just also made pioneering contributions to general biology and evolutionary bioethics. Within Just’s published contributions to observational cell biology, there are substantial fragments of his theory of ethical behavior, a theory with roots in cell biology. In addition to such previously available fragments, Just’s fully developed theory is now available. This recently discovered unpublished book-length manuscript argues for the biological origins of ethical behavior (evolving from cells to humans, within a living environment, and subject to the “law of environmental dependence”). Contemporary research is starting to catch up to Just. In evolutionary bioethics, Just is the pioneer.”]
[ 71 ] Walker, Theodore, Jr. (February 2020). “Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941): Hero in Cell Biology and in Evolutionary Bioethics” in the Meharry Medical College Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, volume 31, number 1, pages 4-10. | Johns Hopkins University Press. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/hpu.2020.0002, online at http://muse.jhu.edu/article/747768 and at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32037311/. (Accessed 17 September 2021.) [Abstract– “Ernest Everett Just is celebrated for his contributions to cell biology. Among other firsts, he was first to describe the "wave of negativity" spreading around an egg cell from the entrance point of the fertilizing spermatozoon. His accomplishments in biology are celebrated in Black Apollo of Science (1983) by Kenneth Manning, and by a 1996 Black Heritage postage stamp. What is not yet widely appreciated, however, is that Just connected evolutionary biology to ethical behavior (1933, 1939, 1940). He was probably the first cell biologist to argue that human ethical behavior evolved from our very most primitive cellular origins. Today, Just's contributions to evolutionary bioethics, including "the law of environmental dependence," can be better appreciated because his unpublished book-length manuscript, "The Origin of Man's Ethical Behavior" has been preserved at Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.”] [Here is said: “… no doubt, there will someday be a video drama or movie about Just. No doubt, too, that video will include Just’s internment (August 1940) and dramatic escape (early September 1940) from Nazi-occupied France (with rescue help from the well-connected German family of his second wife, Hedwig Schnetzler Just), his return to Howard University (late September 1940), and his death at age 58 from pancreatic cancer on 27 October 1941.”]
[ 72 ] Walker, Theodore, Jr. (29 April 2020). "Interdisciplinary Convergences with Biology and Ethics via Cell Biologist Ernest Everett Just and Astrobiologist Sir Fred Hoyle" (chapter one, pages 11-35) in Panentheism and Panpsychism: Philosophy of Religion Meets Philosophy of Mind Series: Innsbruck Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume: 2, edited by Godehard Brüntrup, Benedikt Paul Göcke and Ludwig Jaskolla. Leiden, Netherlands: Mentis Verlag | Brill, 2020. Online at https://brill.com/view/title/55646. (Accessed 17 September 2021.)
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[ 74 ] Williams, Katelyn M. with Bryan A. Wilson, Wendi G. O’Connor, and Monte S. Willis. (18 July 2013). “Ernest Everett Just, PhD: Pioneer in Ecological Developmental (Eco-Devo) Biology” in the Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science, volume 11, issue 1, article 5, online at https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/jscas/vol11/iss1/5/. (Accessed 17 September 2021.) [Abstract– “Ernest Everett Just, a pioneering American biologist, discovered the fundamental role of the environment in the development of embryos. His work led to the creation of the area of biology known as ecological developmental (Eco-Devo) biology. However, both his work and the context of his scientific contributions are not widely known. His work covered a diversity of fields of biology, including marine biology, cytology, and parthogenesis (asexual reproduction where growth and development of embryos occur without fertilization). His findings provided important concepts in developmental biology that are used to this day. Specifically, he demonstrated the importance of the cellular cytoplasm and ectoplasm, in addition to the nucleus, in determining how development occurs in embryos. His worked was unique for its use of in vivo conditions using a variety of marine organisms. His publications on the “Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Mammals” in 1922 [1939b] and “The Biology of the Cell Surface” in 1939 are still regarded as two of the most comprehensive reviews in cell biology. In this manuscript we present Dr. Just’s childhood in Charleston, SC, unlikely attendance and success at Dartmouth College, and his groundbreaking work, which was developed at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Europe, and Howard University.”]
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