As scientists debated the nature of life in the nineteenth century, two theories predominated: vitalism, which suggested that living things contained a vital spark, and mechanism, the idea that animals and humans differed from nonliving things only in their degree of complexity. Erik Peterson tells the forgotten story of the pursuit of a Third Way in biology, known by many names, including the organic philosophy, which gave rise to C. H. Waddington s work in the subfield of epigenetics: an alternative to standard genetics and evolutionary biology that captured the attention of notable scientists from Francis Crick to Stephen Jay Gould. The Life Organic chronicles the.
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