Sublime

Dass freilich nicht jedes Merkmal seine Erklärung in einem Überlebenszweck finden muss, verdeutlichte der amerikanische Biologe und Philosoph Steven Jay Gould

Edward O. Wilson’s Consilience

the uncut DNA could be cut simply by designing a new guide RNA to match 20 nucleotides of its sequence.

Unlocking the secrets of telomerase required purifying the whole machine—RNA plus protein—

random mutation and natural selection can’t accomplish anything remotely like what has been ascribed to them.

McClintock, Prusiner, and Marshall offered projective thinking, suspending their disbelief regarding scientific views accepted at the time.

although sequence similarities are good evidence for common descent, they cannot show whether random mutation and natural selection could build even the simplest system or, given that simple system, whether it could be expanded or improved by Darwin’s mechanism.

I write as a convert to the advocacy of tribalism. I used to

underlying mechanism: that a microscopic chemical recipe produces variation within and between species. Several decades after his death, however, the field of evolutionary biology became shaped by an idea called the modern synthesis. It’s a simple but powerful model that is useful for understanding social and cultural change within humans as well a