Lewis, Edward B
“The genes that Edward Lewis discovered have in fact the same order in our DNA as in that of the fruit fly, and they work in the same way. The knowledge gained about the development of the fruit fly has thus been a prerequisite for the recent advances in understanding how vertebrates develop.” As a colleague at Caltech said of Ed Lewis, “He had a long-term obsession to come up with profound universal truths, which he did.”
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