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Tangential to your point, but I enjoy the comparison you draw between DNA mechanisms and Rube Goldberg machines. It’s an apt metaphor because DNA, and the body
by kabirgoel 6y ago
Tangential to your point, but I enjoy the comparison you draw between DNA mechanisms and Rube Goldberg machines. It’s an apt metaphor because DNA, and the body as a whole, is constructed quite randomly according to the demands of the environment.
- ravi-delia 6y agoOh absolutely! I can remember being so confused for so long about how DNA could possibly code for everything in an animal until I learned how convoluted and indirect the effect is. So much of what genes do is totally mediated by the process of development, emergent interactions between cells. No wonder we so rarely find clean correspondences between genes and traits, its honestly a miracle even polygenetic statistics find anything.