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James Hamlin • Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (FT Press Science)
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Walker thinks that our understanding of life, as a phenomenon, is right now where we were with gravity before Newton. We can describe what we see, but we have no sense of the underlying principles—we just see an apple falling to the ground. She thinks that without a theory, a deeper understanding of what life is, the search for it beyond Earth is p
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Prof. Lee Cronin • Tweet
“For every type of animal there is a most convenient size, and a change in size inevitably carries with it a change of form,” Haldane wrote. A most convenient size. A proper state where things work well but break when you try to scale them to a different size or speed.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
“In the future, attention undoubtedly will be centered on the genome, with greater appreciation of its significance as a highly sensitive organ of the cell that monitors genomic activities and corrects common errors, senses unusual and unexpected events, and responds to them, often by restructuring the genome.”