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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

— Francis Crick The Astonishing Hypothesis (1994)

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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

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This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

The visual information provided by our eyes can be ambiguous.

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You are easily deceived by your visual system.

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Before I describe in more detail exactly what is involved in seeing, let me make three general remarks.

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