Isn't it an incredible relief to learn about Carla's remission?
All these pages later, we return to Virchow....science is always turning back on itself. And it is interesting to me, as a reader, that Boveri's theory, which was so close to the truth, was actually the truth, was buried by circumstance: the convenience of Rous' virus theory. Are we dumping ice buckets over our heads today needlessly? Are the answers within reach? Buried somewhere by convenience and circumstance or something more menacing?
If you understood this section, you can describe the progression of biological discovery that begins with Mendel and ends with Monod. You also understand why Mukherjee has to cover that to prepare us for the retrovirus discussion. And that section and some that will follow are the ones that I warned you about at our AP Lang meeting. Even though Mukherjee tries to explain it to the layperson, I feel he falls short here. He seems to pushing on the accelerator when I need him to slow down.
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