First, I really like this historical analysis. There are always interesting details that get uncovered. I just have one question. If Crick regretted naming it the Central Dogma, why do synthetic biologists feel the need to build on that, when Darwin was also speculating on primordial origins? According to my late professor, Carl Woese, Molecular Biologists believed that the genetic code was a frozen accident, when it was in fact optimized from statistical mechanics (Goldenfeld, 12/2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11VDjUXEJI)
NICE HISTORY OF DNA..INTERESTING ...
First, I really like this historical analysis. There are always interesting details that get uncovered. I just have one question. If Crick regretted naming it the Central Dogma, why do synthetic biologists feel the need to build on that, when Darwin was also speculating on primordial origins? According to my late professor, Carl Woese, Molecular Biologists believed that the genetic code was a frozen accident, when it was in fact optimized from statistical mechanics (Goldenfeld, 12/2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11VDjUXEJI)
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mmbr.68.2.173-186.2004
https://github.com/hatonthecat/Biology