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There’s a thousand genes for that! (Ep 98)
Big Biology
The Limits of Evolutionary Theory
I find it a bit irritating this whole extended synthesis business because firstly it's most popular amongst people I wouldn't say outside biology but doing history biology philosophy of biology. It's really quite a minority of working biologists who are kind of getting on trying to do stuff and there's not that one has the sense of a field in crisis as we've missing the missing heritability or whatever. There are really solid theoretical understandings of the model systems we really understand, he says. The idea is that many of these effects are so small that experimentally we'll never be able to pick them up if I wanted to be provocative that would be true yes.
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