Beyond Human Molecular Biology to Post-Human Molecular Biology: Towards to New Theory of Function and Non-Function

Is molecular biology really so promising that, as William T. Astbury (TOD 2019) assertively claimed, “We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of ‘molecular biology’ as I like to call it...”? This affirmative view on molecular biology can be contrasted with the opposing one by Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, who warned that “there is virtually nothing that has come from molecular biology that can be ...