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12-17-2007 7:14 PM

I would like to discuss the following paper paper by Richard C. Strohman. While I believe Dr. Strohman is nutty, he gives an interesting discussion in this paper. Briefly summarizing, he says there is a coming revolution in biological understanding of the cell and that genetic determinism does not adequately support the complexity of the genome. He gives epigenetic phenomenon as an example that may be of influence.

Dr. Strohman retired in 1991 and this paper was published in 1997 and is very out of date. Much of the paper is over the philosophy of science rather than of actual research and explanations conducted, but none the less, if you are able to skip the philosophical pseudoscience you may find it a great paper for an intro to epigenetic studies.

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