Is There a Self Containing Theory of Disease Transmission?

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i think that far too much emphasis has been put on derivability, because you can't derive the solidity of the table in front of me from the standard model particle physics. What what i'm interested in at the moment is i don't need to know about the standard model of particle physics to describe the behaviour of the table. There is an autonomous theory of it. So absolutely, i think biology is kind of, perhaps with that kind of d yo, can derive one from that starting to really break down well. But they're there, sort of like a deeper, trickier issue.

One of the brilliant achievements of Darwin’s theory of natural selection was to help explain apparently “purposeful” or “designed” aspects of biology in a purely mechanistic theory of unguided evolution. Features are good if they help organisms survive. But should we put organisms at the center of our attention, or the genetic information that governs those features? Arvid Ågren helps us understand the attraction of the “selfish gene” view of evolution, as well as its shortcomings. This biological excursion has deep connections to philosophical issues of levels and emergence.

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Arvid Ågren received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Toronto. He is currently a Wenner-Gren Fellow at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. Previously he worked at Cornell and Harvard. His recent book is The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution.

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