We've now realized that the mapping of the human genome has yielded many beautiful computer models but little else. 102) An approach that ironically is quite opposed to the study of life. From a biology textbook quoted by Capra, "One of the acid tests of understanding an object is the ability to put it together from its component parts. Our biologists had taken a mechanistic view of life. While physicists were busy revolutionizing our outlook on the fundamentals of the universe, the mechanistic paradigm of the past had already taken hold on the methods of every other field.
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