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A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)

Big Biology

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The Limits of the Modern Synthesis

The modern synthesis focuses on changes in the fraction of variation that things, either genes or environments, explain. To their way of thinking, one need only understand how the DNA from one generation gets into the next. That's all biology done. No, can't be. The modern synthesis can't be the main paradigm for understanding life if it doesn't explain most of how life is alive.

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