Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 12:00 pm on July 19, 2023  

A closed loop – the DNA helix gave 20th-century biology its symbol. But the more we learn, the more life circles back to an older image – Davies (2014), Aeon

A murmuration of starlings in southern Israel. Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters

Jamie Daviesis professor of experimental anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book is Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself (2014).

Edited byEd Lake

https://aeon.co/essays/the-feedback-loop-is-a-better-symbol-of-life-than-the-helix