> I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA.
I should have loved biology in high school, had it been centered on evolutionary principles, rather than (in my US classes) seemingly disconnected materials with at most a week on evolution.
Because "controversy."
I noticed this essay doesn't used the word evolution at all, preferring "heredity."
Evolution is what ties the fields of biology together, from biochemistry and microbiology to anatomy, animal behavior, and ecosystems.
I didn't start to understand what I was missing in my biology education until I started reading Stephen Jay Gould essays in college.
I should have loved biology in high school, had it been centered on evolutionary principles, rather than (in my US classes) seemingly disconnected materials with at most a week on evolution.
Because "controversy."
I noticed this essay doesn't used the word evolution at all, preferring "heredity."
Evolution is what ties the fields of biology together, from biochemistry and microbiology to anatomy, animal behavior, and ecosystems.
I didn't start to understand what I was missing in my biology education until I started reading Stephen Jay Gould essays in college.