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to try it at scale. The quest for species revival began in the 1930s, when early cloning experiments made resurrection a speculative possibility. The 1950s discovery of DNA added credibility, but it was Steven Spielberg’s 1993 cinematic adaptation of Michael Crichton’s book Jurassic Park that truly captured our imagination. Like Star
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. It is, in my opinion, a more impressive feat than anything else humans have achieved, including putting man on the moon. Apart, perhaps, from the discovery of DNA.’ Image #52, following Stephen’s wasp in the biosphere sequence, is another diagram by Jon Lomberg. It’s a pretty simple diagram, showing a rough
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. That RNA molecule is taken up by a molecular factory called a ribosome, which reads the sequence of RNA and builds a corresponding protein. The discovery of DNA seemed to reduce heredity to a reliably simple recipe. It came down to turning one DNA molecule into a pair. A cell’s molecular machinery
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, and then information begat form. Centuries later, the biologist Max Delbrück would joke that Aristotle should have been given the Nobel Prize posthumously—for the discovery of DNA. But if heredity was transmitted as information, then how was that information encoded? The word code comes from the Latin caudex, the wooden pith of
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step. Computer models confirm that there is nothing to suggest any of the stages would confer a disadvantage. Moreover, the digitisation of biology since the discovery of DNA provides direct and unambiguous evidence of gradual evolution by the progressive alteration of the sequence of letters in genes. We now know that the very
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based on random variation and natural selection. However, Darwin didn’t know where the algorithm was in the body. This was not known until the discovery of DNA many years later. Mountcastle, by contrast, didn’t know what the cortical algorithm was; he didn’t know what the principles of intelligence were. But
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