/sci/ - Science & Math

Very interesting, currently reading. I too, found troubling the notion DNA->Protein->?->Living creature

>>12793681
but if genes don't determine everything, how can our non-eugenicist completely benevolent genetic counselling and planned parenthood organizations prevent people from begetting undesirable children.

>>12793681
the answer was always something in between genes determine everything vs humans are tabula rosa.

genes do not encode structures, but rather they encode rules, which makes WAY more sense if you think about it, because rules are far more scalable than structures. in fact, rules work at all scales.

>>12793877
>tabula rosa.

>>12793912
typo, my friend.

>>12793912
pink slate kek

>>12793681
huh. wouldn’t this more dynamic, emergent model better explain and predict rapid evolution than the notion of purely chance alterations in genetics?

>>12793681
nautil.us takes funding from the templeton foundation, which is a religious organization
just saying
of course epigenetics is interesting though

>>12793681
holy based
mendelians shiver with fear at the sight of Lysenko

>>12793681
This is a periodical cope. Nothing's gonna happen, genetics rules OK.

>>12793681
Is this the next level of leftist denialism?

I realized all this during my bachelor's in biotech, it's quite obvious when you just look at the basic principles of DNA, cellular differentiation and so on. People are stuck in the computer mindset where dna "programs" the organism, like computer code underlies every single action a program takes and exists "outside" of the reality of a program. It's just dumb.

>>12793877
Genes are a very small part most of the music is playing somewhere else. And it’s often much deeper than common conceptions of environment. Heredity is even deeper.

>>12796824
>Mendelians cringe when they see this faggot
There, fixed it for you!

>>12793681
Russians will starve again while the rest of us continue developing GMOs to have more food than we know what to do with.

>>12801301
GMOs have failed their promise of producing more food. Really the only successful green revolution was mainstreaming synthetic fertilizer, pesticide and mechanization. GMOs only promise meme gains like "vitamin A for malnourished kids". Like nigga if rice is all you have to eat the problem runs deeper than vitamin A.

>>12801322
>millions of dead Russians and Chinese because of Lysenko
>food lasts longer and has never been cheaper and as available as it is now
must be a coincidence

>>12801432
Still has nothing to do with GMOs

>>12801432
These millions of dead russians and chinese were basically peasants evicted from their land, that had nothing to do with agricultural techniques. The thing with Lysenko and his followers is they tried to grow crops unsuited to their local soils and climate, or did ecological crimes like drying the aral sea to grow cotton. Of course the peasants knew better how to grow.

>>12793681
>links genetics with white supremacy and Nazism ASAP
I knew it was coming but it still made me depressed when I read it.

>>12800203
cope