Sublime

It is remarkable that nearly every scientist in genetics research is also engaged in the commerce of biotechnology. There are no detached observers. Everybody has a stake.

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.

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

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

En biologie, soutenir que l’évolution est conservatrice est un lieu commun. Toute évolution a pour base une création naturelle. De nouvelles fonctions apparaissent, et les plus anciennes peuvent subir des ajustements, mais la plupart des caractéristiques originelles demeurent identiques.

Selection in species with diverse cell types comes along with planned obsolescence