[Taxacom] Hope for Lost Causes

[Richard Zander]

I've come across fresh support for Lost Causes in biology. Unusual and
challenging ideas, such as my own, as well as wild theories, such as
those of others, are often presented on Taxacom to entertain us. 

 

Take heart!  Here is a paper from the dawn of biological time (1981)
that wraps several theories in a new, quite modern, perspective. There
is a lot of blather, too, but blather delightfully well-written.

 

http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/Repr/Rachootin-Thomson_Epigenet
ics_1981.pdf 

*****************************
Richard H. Zander 
Voice: 314-577-0276
Missouri Botanical Garden
PO Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA
richard.zander at mobot.org
Web sites: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/
and http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/bfnamenu.htm
Non-post deliveries to:
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110
*****************************