From: "Andrew Hagen" <xah-AT-myrealbox.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:22:22 -0500 Subject: BHA: Re: <fwd> S.J. Gould on new genome findings That was an interesting speech. He seems committed to the idea of the gene. This new finding that the human genome is spectacularly limited requires some explanation for gene proponents, as Gould attempts. Against the idea of the gene, the argument may eventually succeed that there is far more to life than we yet know, including the actions of enzymes located in the cytoplasm of cells, for example. A recent book, The Century of the Gene, attacks the idea of the gene. If Kuhn is right, it will take a new and better theory to move us past the gene paradigm, however. Didn't Bhaskar write somewhere that tables do not have essences, but dogs do, because dogs have DNA? I can't find the citation. It seems that if the idea of the gene does fall, many other ideas will also fall. Andrew Hagen xah-AT-myrealbox.com --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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