Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
So genes are like gravity—but animals aren’t like atoms.
Tim Urban • Page Not Found — Wait But Why
The metaphor of DNA as a blueprint or instruction manual is not correct given the prevalence of transposons; rather it is “part library and part zoo, with the unruly creatures of the menagerie constantly tearing into the pages, creating mutation and mayhem” (p. 177).
Book review – Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life,
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