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A Christmas Chrestomathy
The Editors
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As the year draws to a close, the editors are delighted to present our second annual Christmas Chrestomathy, highlighting the essays that best represent our aims, ambitions, attitudes, and even our animadversions. As it turned out, 2021 was a milestone year for the journal with the launch of a new website, the switch to a rolling publication schedule, and the debut of a new section: The Rambler.
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The Secret Lives of DNA
Neeraja Sankaran
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The discovery of the double helical structure of DNA is well known. But what of the discoveries of DNA itself and of its function as the material carrier of life’s instructions?
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From Genes to Genomes
James Shapiro
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In his review of
Genome Chaos: Rethinking Genetics, Evolution, and Molecular Medicine
by Henry Heng, James Shapiro charts the history of the ideas Heng furnishes, and applauds his novel approach.
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Madness in Numbers
Christine von Oertzen
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Theodore Porter’s book
Genetics in the Madhouse
describes the somewhat surprising origins of the study of human heredity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lunatic asylums.
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Genes within Genes
Tyler Hampton
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A new study, “Russian Doll Genes and Complex Chromosome Rearrangements in
Oxytricha trifallax
,” casts fresh light on gene nesting and mathematical patterns. Tyler Hampton examines the key findings.
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Black as Death
Monica Green
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A new account argues for the importance of climate and disease as forces shaping medieval Europe. Monica Green offers a detailed critique and reviews new research into the origins of the Black Death.
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Genes Without Prominence
Keith Baverstock
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Evolution and the origin of life through the lens of thermodynamics: using dynamical systems theory, Keith Baverstock argues natural selection is based on metabolic efficiency, not genetic variation.
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