Ian Wilmut ends his review of Matt Ridley's book with the quote that genes are "devices for extracting information from the environment" (Books, THES , September 19). Genes are passive storage. They provide information to the cellular machinery to build information-extraction devices.
Richard Wilson
Bicester
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