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The evolutionary theorist François Jacob captured this in his concept of evolution as a “tinkerer,” not an engineer; our bodies are also works of bricolage, old parts strung together to form something radically new.

the bear’s gene segment must have the same sequence in almost all nearby universes as it does in ours. That is because it is presumably highly adapted, which means that most variants of it would not succeed in getting themselves copied in most variants of their environment, and so could not appear at that location in the DNA of a living bear. In co

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Natural genetic engineering seems to have a big chicken-and-egg problem—it needs complex systems to make complex systems.

“We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies.”

much of modern evolutionary biology is also cloaked by a thick pretense of knowledge.

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