Evolution Is Cleverer Than You Are.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clicks Into Place. One Immediately Sees How Many Previously Puzzling Facts Are Neatly Explained By The New Hypothesis. One Could Kick Oneself For Not Having The Idea Earlier, It Now Seems So Obvious. Yet Before, Everything Was In A Fog.

We Are Sometimes Asked What The Result Would Be If We Put Four +'s In One Gene. To Answer This My Colleagues Have Recently Put Together Not Merely Four But Six +'s.

Chance Is The Only Source Of True Novelty.

Almost All Aspects Of Life Are Engineered At The Molecular Level, And Without Understanding Molecules We Can Only Have A Very Sketchy Understanding Of Life Itself.

Unfortunately It Makes The Unambiguous Determination Of Triplets By These Methods Much More Difficult Than Would Be The Case If There Were Only One Triplet For Each Amino Acid.