The answer – fewer than are in a banana – has implications for the study of human health and raises questions about what generates complexity anyway.
- Research Professor of Ecosystem Science and Management, Penn State
La biologie est friande de métaphores et d’images fortes pour décrire l’évolution du vivant. Mais que valent ces représentations ? Celle, fameuse, du chaînon manquant est hautement critiquable.
Forget the pith helmet and butterfly net. Discovering biodiversity now is much more about metagenomics and the 0’s and 1’s of digital databases.
Missing links make a good story, but not good science. Outdated metaphors don’t help us understand the rapid evolution of infectious diseases such as flu and malaria.
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