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WHO IS THE GREATEST BIOLOGIST OF ALL TIME?

Armand Marie Leroi
[3.11.11]

"So who is the greatest biologist of all time? Good question. For most people it's got to be Darwin. I mean, Darwin is top dog, numero uno. He told us about evolution, he convinced us that evolution happened, and he gave us an explanation for it. I mean, there just wouldn't seem to be any competition. Okay, fine, well you might then say: Mendel. Mendel discovers transmission genetics, and that was pretty good. And I suppose then you have to go pretty far down the list to come to people like Watson and Crick, who just discovered the structure of DNA, which is just a bit of structural biology, really, a bit of biochemistry."


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Edge@DLD | An Edge Conversation in Munich

Introduction by Andrian Kreye
John Brockman, Stewart Brand, George Dyson, Kevin Kelly
[1.24.11]

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