A materialist account
An extract from “Genes, Cells and Brains” by Hilary & Steven Rose
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The paradigm was beginning to fall apart
An extract from “Genes, Cells and Brains” by Hilary & Steven Rose As the geneticist and sequencer Eric Lander realised, the limits to what the HGP might reveal about human … Continue reading The paradigm was beginning to fall apart
Genius as phosphorus
An extract from “Genes, Cells and Brains” by Hilary & Steven Rose With the theatrics surrounding the announcement of the sequencing of the human genome, genes yielded to genomics, and … Continue reading Genius as phosphorus
Bottle-tops and epigenetics
An extract from “Genes, Cells and Brains” by Hilary & Steven Rose Jablonka and Lamb argue that there are multiple levels at which selection occurs: genic, epigenetic, behavioural, and, for … Continue reading Bottle-tops and epigenetics
The Blind Watchmaker
An extract from “Genes, Cells and Brains” by Hilary & Steven Rose
Much, much more was required
An extract from “Genes, Cells and Brains” by Hilary & Steven Rose THE HUMAN GENOME DIVERSITY PROJECT “The revelation of the complexity of the human genome came as a surprise, … Continue reading Much, much more was required
In the beginning was the worm
Sydney Brenner was an early collaborator with Crick. In the mid-1960s Brenner had begun a project that seemed then as unpromising as the HGP did twenty years later. He was … Continue reading In the beginning was the worm
Science radically different from the past
Four small molecules, the nucleotides – or bases – adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymidine: (A, C, G and T). At King’s College London, the biophysicist Maurice Wilkins and the X-ray … Continue reading Science radically different from the past