Sublime

As philosopher of science Daniel Nicholson puts it, “The view that genes are the primary causal agents of all the phenomena of organismic life is not well supported by the findings of contemporary biology.” This much, at least, seems uncontroversial. And yet—and yet!—these correlations persist, and genotypic changes and phenotypic changes often tra

This modeling was carried out by epidemiologist Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in London.

Just as there are physicists who will tell you that everything that happens can ultimately be explained by physics alone (it can’t), and chemists who tell you that in the end biology is just chemistry (it isn’t), so by asserting the primacy of the gene, geneticists are establishing an intellectual pecking order when they attribute more to genes tha

Yes, there are effectively certain truths of science. General Relativity may be overturned by some future physics—albeit not in any way that predicts the Sun will orbit Jupiter; the new theory must steal the successful predictions of the old theory, not contradict them. But evolutionary theory takes place on a higher level of organization than atom

Les biologistes pensaient et agissaient comme si les molécules étaient des éléments matériels séparés, uniquement reliés par le biais d'attractions et de répulsions électromagnétiques ; aucun d'entre eux, il en était convaincu, n'avait entendu parler du paradoxe EPR, des expériences d'Aspect ; aucun n'avait même pris la peine de s'informer des prog