The Three Cardinal Problems of Biology
French biologist Jean Rostand, in his 1956 book Can Man be Modified? wrote: Have not the biologists the right to a little conceit, when they add up what they have achieved in the space of a mere half century? Would they not be justified in believing that to them all things will become possible, simply by going on deepening the trenches already dug and continuing along the lines of researches already marked out? But this is where we must remind ourselves that our successes, amazing as they are, leave the formidable riddles of life itself almost intact. The three cardinal problems of biology—the problem of how a living creature grows, the problem of how species evolve, the problem of how Read More ›