Ep 14: Plasticity? Sounds fishy.
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Is There a Tangled Knot in Biology?
"Evolutionary theory works really well, but it doesn't capture an enormous mount o what biology is about and what matters," he says. "If we're never able to address this piece, it doesn't present the opportunity for unification across levels of organization." He argues that traits are emergent properties that develop from lower levels of biological organization. 'I don't see why you need to go to that level of reductionism'
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