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Sorry But We Are NOT  Unique

A fascinating example of our connectedness to the rest of living things through our behave and biochemistry. Virtually anything we do has it's antecedents deep in evolutionary time. 

This is a continuation of studies of fruit flies that began in the 1930's in the fly lab of Columbia University lead by a great biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan and his coworkers to map, literally, the genetics of the fruit fly and open cytogenetic studies of humans. Jonathan Weiner tells the story of the discovery of the genetic basis of behavior in the fruit fly in a very good and readable book, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologists and his quest for the origins of behavior about  Seymour Benzer who moved from the early days of viral research to fruit flies. 

see New York Times, March 16, 2012 page 1


Martin

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On Mar 16, 2012, at 1:49 AM, Charlie Carlson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> This is a bit too much!
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