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Volume 337 Issue 6203, 12 January 1989

Opinion

  • A dispute over the attribution of priority for a neo-lamarckian mechanism is premature and unseemly, to say the least, and may help make science seem ridiculous.

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  • British Telecom, a nationalized industry now private, seems still to hanker after old ways.

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  • The British government's latest view of higher education hangs on assumptions still unproven.

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  • The remarkable properties of some recent computer algorithms for neural networks seemed to promise a fresh approach to understanding the computational properties of the brain. Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.

    • Francis Crick
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