“In effect, DNA seems capable of collecting information – through the language of food – about changing conditions in the outside world, enacting alteration based on that information, and documenting both the collected data and its response for the benefit of subsequent generations.”

“In effect, DNA seems capable of collecting information – through the language of food – about changing conditions in the outside world, enacting alteration based on that information, and documenting both the collected data and its response for the benefit of subsequent generations.”

— Catherine Shanahan