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Et les bactéries d'Edmond ? – Lui-même déclarait qu'il ne faisait qu'étudier ses ancêtres. Disons qu'il remontait un peu plus haut que la normale dans son arbre généalogique…
Bernard Werber • Les Fourmis (French Edition)
John Fagan is a molecular biologist who for more than twenty years was funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct genetic engineering research. But in 1994, he returned more than $600,000 to the NIH and withdrew his proposals for another $1.25 million. Then he launched a global campaign to alert the public about the hazards of genetic e
... See moreDean Ornish M.D. • The Food Revolution
Note Hull’s comment that if a person or group dissociates the species-specific designation “Homo sapiens” from the designation “human being,” with all of its attendant moral and theological implications, then that person or group has a “less plausible position.” Why? Why should that which we see, hear, feel, taste, or touch (or observe through scie
... See moreJ.P. Moreland • Love Your God With All Your Mind
In The Wizard and the Prophet, Lynn Margulis is indeed quoted as comparing humans to bacteria in a petri dish, warning that humanity could overrun the planet and exhaust its resources, leading to collapse. Charles C. Mann opens the book with a quote from Margulis, whom he admires as “one of the most important biologists in the last half century,” a
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