BHA: Re: <fwd> S.J. Gould on new genome findings

["Andrew Hagen" <xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That was an interesting speech. He seems committed to the idea of the
gene. This new finding that the human genome is spectacularly limited
requires some explanation for gene proponents, as Gould attempts.
Against the idea of the gene, the argument may eventually succeed that
there is far more to life than we yet know, including the actions of
enzymes located in the cytoplasm of cells, for example. A recent book,
The Century of the Gene, attacks the idea of the gene. If Kuhn is
right, it will take a new and better theory to move us past the gene
paradigm, however. Didn't Bhaskar write somewhere that tables do not
have essences, but dogs do, because dogs have DNA? I can't find the
citation. It seems that if the idea of the gene does fall, many other
ideas will also fall.

Andrew Hagen
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