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Biólogo molecular estadounidense, genetista, zoólogo y laureado con el Premio Nobel (1928–2025)
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“The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.”
“No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?”
“Crick, however, was right. Our discovery put an end to a debate as old as the human species: Does life have some magical, mystical essence, or is it, like any chemical reaction carried out in a science class, the product of normal physical and chemical processes? Is there something divine at the heart of a cell that brings it to life? The double helix answer that question with a definitive No.”
“This remarkable feat merely reaffirms what most of us in molecular biology have long known to be the truth: the essence of life is complicated chemistry and nothing more.”
“The finding that there is a substantial genetic component to our behavior should not surprise us; indeed, it would be far more surprising if this were not the case. We are products of evolution: among our ancestors, natural selection indubitably exerted a strong influence over all traits that have figured in our survival.”
“With its direct contradiction of religious accounts of creation, evolution represents science’s most direct incursion into the religious domain and accordingly provokes the acute defensiveness that characterizes creationism.”
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James Dewey Watson fue un biólogo molecular, genetista y zoólogo estadounidense. En 1953, James Watson y Francis Crick fueron coautores de un artículo académico sobre el ADN titulado "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid". Publicado en la revista científica Nature, el artículo propuso la existencia de la estructura de doble hélice de la molécula de ADN, basándose en la investigación de Rosalind Franklin y Raymond Gosling. En 1962, el Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina fue otorgado a James Watson, Francis Crick y Maurice Wilkins "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
