Tag: C. H. Waddington

  • Tools for thinking about an increasingly complex world

    Tools for thinking about an increasingly complex world

    A few weeks ago I had to write a seminar talk about epigenetics in the media. In the course of investigating the historical background to that emerging discipline, I looked at Conrad Hal Waddington’s work on embryology and development and his creation of the metaphor ‘epigenetic landscape’. But this is not what this blog post…