Evolution
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To fully appreciate the intellectual disruption that’s underway in 21st century biological thinking, you need to go back to April 1953. That’s when the (still) renowned science journal Nature published Watson & Crick’s manuscript describing the helical structure of DNA, and how its ladder-and-wrung assembly of nucleotides might be the long sought biochemical template for transferring
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“One of the things that molecular studies have reinforced is something that had already been accepted by modern geneticists: the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart disease, obesity, religiosity, homosexuality, shyness, stupidity, or any other aspect of mind
Biology for the Soul 