Count on It: Bach, Biology, and the Baroque

If you haven't yet watched our new short documentary based on geneticist Michael Denton's work, The Biology of the Baroque, you must. As Denton shows, there is an excess and an opulence to the beauty and order of life that goes immeasurably beyond utilitarian evolutionary considerations of survival and reproduction. Perhaps, though, the parallel between what Denton calls "non-adaptive order" in biology, and the art of the Baroque period, goes a little further.

The video, scripted by our coll...