elegant autobiography
"Naturalist"
sketches an epochal
Shem/Shaun brotherbattle
in Harvard's biology department
of the 50s and 60s
between wilson
representing the classical tradition
of evolutionary macrobiology
and james 'double helix' watson
as the insufferable young turk
of molecular biology
dismissing wilson's classical tradition
until the introduction of mathematical models
for sociobiology
and island biogeography
rehabilitated that tradition
and i see a parallel
with the classical approach to the
unification of the sciences
versus the physicists' megalomaniacal
ten-dimensional Theories of Everything
rehabilitatable via
the Tree of Life
approach?
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