September 2018 with Nathan and Laura: Studying the Same Genes and the Matt Fender Story

And here we were thinking it was a slow month!

We have two big stories today: first this philosophy of biology question about whether it’s a bad thing that we’ve been stuck circling the wagons ‘round the same ole genes. Is it just an economic question? Or is it that these are the most active genes, and so we need a meritocracy, as Nathan puts forth?

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