https://youtu.be/AIyMr6mH11s This talk draws on the intellectual history of maternal effects science to pose the question: What forms of scientific practice and discourse result when life scientists encounter phenomena that persistently rebuff study, control, and optimization, and which demand a high tolerance for uncertainty? The science of maternal effects posits that in addition to transmitting … Continue reading Sarah Richardson – Exceptional and unconformable phenomena: Maternal effects and the epistemologies of the life sciences
Tag: Epigenetics
Turtles… dialectics all the way down
"Biology has traditionally defined individuals by the criteria of anatomy (organisms separated from the environment), physiology (organisms whose parts work toward a common end), development (organisms derived from a common precursor cell), genetics (autopoietic organisms whose cells contain the same genome), immunology (organisms that reject non-self), and evolution (that which is selected). Recent studies show … Continue reading Turtles… dialectics all the way down
Steven Rose on the complexity of genetics and its social relevance (in part)
Sorry about Dawkin's - somebody has to represent the outmoded and corrosive! https://youtu.be/gaUXNJxRDjw
Biology In An Age Of Technoscience
Biology In An Age Of Technoscience by Hilary and Steven Rose "For those of us seeking to extend social justice in the world we should be fighting for a different kind of science" argue Hilary and Steven Rose.
Joey O'Gorman 