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It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life (www.nature.com)

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Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999

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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Why can't we have both?

Edit: switched what to why.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I think we will. It's still a useful analogy for initial understanding. However, I think we should be clear that it's not quite perfect. Just like we have to be careful about bringing a Newtonian understanding into quantum physics where someone might believe a photon has mass because it has momentum.