
A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin’s best-kept secret.

A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin’s best-kept secret.
Since Charles Darwin first put forth the theory of evolution, scientists have been trying to unlock the mysteries of genetics. But research on the genome — the organism’s entire hereditary package encoded in DNA and RNA — has been less extensive. There is a tendency to think of the genome as a static and passive container of information, says Dr. Ehud Lamm of Tel Aviv University’s Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas.