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Comparative analysis of Charles Darwin and James Watson

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  • Written for HSTS 415.
  • “Credo quia incredibile,” as stated by Charles Darwin in his autobiography, I believe it because it is incredible. It is the incredibly large and complex question of ‘what is life’ that has mesmerized and even terrorized the minds of mankind for centuries. It is the question that led the great minds of two very different people, Charles Darwin and James Watson, to incredible conclusions that have left similar lasting impacts on science and spirituality. Their discoveries of natural selection and the structure of the double helix alluded to the simplicity and elegance of life despite its seeming complexity. Darwin was able to view the world and the interactions of its inhabitants and see the subtle differences between populations of a species. He saw like no one else before him how nature and competition acted upon the fitness and variability of individuals, leading to descent with modification by evolution, and in many cases for the unfit, to the extinction of a species. A century later, James Watson, with his partner Francis Crick, revealed the molecule at the epicenter of the force unearthed by Darwin. Together, Watson and Crick gave shape to the genetic code that determines fitness and the whole constitution of an individual. With determination, luck, and a molecular model kit, Watson and Crick were able to deduce from the collective knowledge of science the structure of the double helix.
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