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The dailygalaxy article makes it sound like this phenomenon is completely baffling to scientists - my first thought as I read it was "vitalism", they seemed to
by sfwc 17y ago
The dailygalaxy article makes it sound like this phenomenon is completely baffling to scientists - my first thought as I read it was "vitalism", they seemed to be saying that the sequence recognition just happens by magic. In fact, though, the original paper discusses at least two possible mechanisms.
- yters 17y agoPerhaps there's still something to vitalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Driesch#Experiments_in_embryology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Driesch#Experiments_in_emb... Experiment showing that irregardless of sea-urchin embryo part grown, it still developed into a full sea-urchin. Hans Driersch thought this evidence of some kind of vitalism in nature.
- Schtarflucz 17y agoHe basically discovered multipotent stem cells. No magic in sight. Nothing related to long standing superstitons either.