Nick Lane: 10 things I’d tell Darwin
Interesting article…
Times Online – Science Central – WBLG: 10 things I’d tell Darwin.
A brief excerpt from the introduction:
“Darwin knew everything and nothing about evolution. Everything, because nobody grasped the priciples of natural selection better than he. Nothing, because almost all of today’s proofs of his theory are written in the languages of genes and molecules that he knew nothing about.
Darwin would be amazed and delighted by the scope and details of our current understanding of life. In Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution I take life’s most celebrated ‘inventions’, each one of which transfigured our planet, and trace what we know of how they came to be”
We can learn a lot from reading through the comments as well.
