Seeing Nature Whole

An excerpt from The Physical Mystery of Life by E.L Watson (1943), and the article “Genes and Life: The Need for Qualitative Understanding” by Craig Holdrege (1999) In this first of a two-episode series highlighting the ever-cogent pieces in our premier issue of the institute’s publication, In Context #1 (Spring 1999), host John Gouldthorpe reads a selection on the mysterious capacities of the female potter wasp, by E.L. Grant Watson, and an article by Craig Holdrege that reflects on the question, “Which of our genes make us human?”