[I]f genes dance, they have been doing so for... most of the period of the Earth's existence... about 4.5 billion years. - Denis Noble
" "[I]f genes dance, they have been doing so for... most of the period of the Earth's existence... about 4.5 billion years.
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CBE FRS FMedSci MAE (born 16 November 1936) is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology. He is one of the pioneers of and developed the first viable mathematical model of the working heart in 1960.
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In the Anglo-Saxon world the debate has been dominated by arguments between the gene-centered views of people like Richard Dawkins... and the multi-level selection views of people like Stephen Jay Gould... The gene-centered view... is a metaphorical polemic: the invention of a colourful metaphor to interpret scientific discovery. It is not a straightforward empirical scientific hypothesis.
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