In the spirit of scientific wagers that saw Richard Feynman bet against micromachining and Steven Hawking reject the idea of Cygnus X-1 harbouring a black hole, Professor Lewis Wolpert has staked a case of port that maverick biologist Rupert Sheldrake is wrong about the role of the genome in determining the fate of living organisms.
However, it is a bet that Wolpert expects he will lose, not because he believes he is wrong but because computer technology and human knowledge will not be able to....
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