Notes

1. For details, see Keekok Lee, Philosophy and Revolutions in Genetics (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

2. Ironically, the attempt to raise its efficiency led Sadi Carnot to discover the fundamental science of thermodynamics.

3. Some animals also have technologies – the beaver and its dam, the chimpanzee and its termite twig.

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