Eric Davidson (1937-2015) on Gene Regulatory Networks

With the passing of paleontologist David Raup and biologist and science historian Will Provine in recent months, we've been given the opportunity to reflect on two famous evolutionary scientists who were brave enough to critique neo-Darwinism. But there's another one we've missed -- Eric Davidson, the developmental biologist from Caltech who, sadly, passed away this past August.

Davidson is famous for formulating the concept of developmental gene regulatory networks (dGRNs), a description of...