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How I Lost My Wings

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This is a remarkable time in the history of biological thought. Experiments during the past few decades have changed scientist’s views of how genes contribute to evolution and development. Genes were once thought to carry the instructions for building an organism, much like a blueprint carries instructions for building a house. Now genes are considered more like exquisitely sensitive switches that initiate and refine sequences of events. 

This WWW site is designed as a way to explore what these changes might mean at a biological, personal, and cultural level. It interweaves stories in the history of biology with stories in speculative fiction about humans losing their wings.