20th Century biology painted itself into a corner through its reliance on inbred animals and catastrophic mutations to sort out the causal foundations of both disease and function. In a tiny fraction of cases, chiefly those involving genetic diseases, this method provided causal insights and thereby pointed to therapeutic interventions. But most people …
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The Causal Engine
How Experimental Evolution reveals the Causal Machinery of Biology
