I am reading (for a review) upcoming book by Denis Noble called "Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity" (Cambridge Univ Press). In the book he lays

I am reading (for a review) upcoming book by Denis Noble called "Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity" (Cambridge Univ Press). In the book he lays out many important problems with neo-Darwinism, and neo-Lamarckism showing up in unexpected places. The big idea of the book is what we are seeing now with biology is what happened to physics when geocentric/antropocentric view of the world collapsed with Copernicus-Galileo-Newton-Einstein, and there was no center any more. Basically while Dawkins and other "high priests of neo-Darwinism" believe in centrality of genes (replicators), the new paradigm that is emerging is that there is nothing central to genes. "The genome is an organ of the cell," as Barbara McClintock said. DNA is just a dead molecule. There is so much more to evolution to consider than just building organisms around replicators, because there are so many different scales we need to consider: subatomic-atoms-molecules-polymers-organelles-cells-tissues-etc etc. And since it's hacking forum, the book discusses the other problem with DNA being the only book of life: it's an incomplete program to be responsible for creating a fully functional output, because it is linear without true logic elements.