With a Startling Candor, Oxford Scientist Admits a Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory

This just in: A rather basic question fundamental to any evolutionary account of life's development -- how "genotypes generate phenotypes," in other words how genes build an individual creature -- remains totally obscure to science.

Writing in Cell Communication and Signaling, Oxford University's Jonathan B.L. Bard reviews James Shapiro's Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, and Gissis and Jablonka, eds., Transformations of Lamarckism: from Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology (MIT P...