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Undetermined: there is danger in assuming that genes explain all.(Essay)
THE delineation of the double-helix structure of DNA by Watson and Crick in 1953 will almost surely rank as one of the most epochal scientific discoveries in human history. Following rapidly upon the synthesis of Darwinian evolution with Mendelian genetics in the 1930s and '40s, it enabled a research program that now seeks to explain a vast array of physical phenomena, from the functioning of individual organisms to the development of species over geological time. This success has led some science popularizers to believe that we have found a new Rosetta Stone enabling us to understand many of the mysteries of human existence. But if translated into public policy, their ...
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