An example of teleology in public science discourse
"…it seems that epigenetic inheritance is not supposed to happen. The marks that are put on in a parent are designed to be removed and reconstructed in the next generation."
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, was interviewed on an episode ('Anne Ferguson-Smith on unravelling epigenetics') of the BBC radio 4 programme/podcast 'The Life Scientific'.
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Examples of teleological statements are included in a document listing a wide range of examples of science analogies, similes, metaphors and the like, drawn from diverse sources, which can be downloaded using this link: 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts.'
