|
Synopsis: In the 19th century Charles Darwin and his contemporaries believed that the cell was a simple glob of protoplasm. If this were true, the cell would be relatively easy to understand and explain. More then a century later modern science has discovered a very different picture. Powerful technologies have revealed elaborate microscopic worlds within every living cell. Each cell is packed with circuits, assembly instructions, and miniature machines, the complexity of which Charles Darwin could never have imagined. In the words of biochemist Michael Behe, “simple life turned out to be outrageously complex.” |
|
