On 5/7/05, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aren't Ian and Jim just talking past each other here without fundamentally > disagreeing > about anything substantial?
----------------------- There are a variety of anti-reductionist approaches in biology relative to the entities/relations in question, from population genetics to whether embryology is a kind of computation that is amenable to reverse engineering: <http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/ijdb20034723/ft183.pdf> McFadden is simply highlighting some aspects of contemporary research controversies. As long as biology persists as a discipline there will be immense controversies. Evolution is downright weird. I don't think Jim and I are disagreeing......yet :-> -- "C'mon Mr. Krinkle, tell me why" [Primus]