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etc. The German logician Kant was right in this respect, human beings are all pretty much identical in terms of our hardwiring. Although we are seldom conscious of it, we are all basically just instruments or expressions of our evolutionary drives, which are themselves the expressions of forces that are infinitely larger and more important than we

Natural selection isn’t about groups, or species, or even individuals. In a sexual species, an individual organism doesn’t evolve; it keeps whatever genes it’s born with. An individual is a once-off collection of genes that will never reappear; how can you select on that? When you consider that nearly all of your ancestors are dead, it’s clear that

Brenner was in a thoughtful mood, drinking sherry before dinner at King’s College. When he began working with Crick, less than two decades before, molecular biology did not even have a name. Two decades later, in the 1990s, scientists worldwide would undertake the mapping of the entire human genome: perhaps 20,000 genes, 3 billion base pairs. What

What’s minimized is not the length but the action, so

creationists ask, rhetorically, “where does all the information in the DNA come from?” and Darwin’s answer is simple: it comes from the gradual, purposeless, nonmiraculous transformation of noise into signal, over billions of years.

Gehirn inspiriert, wie es der Nobelpreisträger Karl Popper glaubte. Und trotzdem ist es nicht so, dass diese Kraft letztlich eine Illusion wäre, was viele zeitgenössische Wissenschaftler meinen. Im Gegenteil. Das Kern-Selbst ist die andere, die »innere« Seite des Stoffwechsels. Seine Kraft ermöglicht die ordnende Perspektive, den Standpunkt, innen,