Today's biology is a frenzy of convergence. Driven by huge datasets and the tools to analyze them, comparative genomics and systems biology are being used to define the common basis of life and the dazzling variations on its central theme. Given the spirit of the times, any attempt to advance a grand unifying theory of biology would get a reasonable hearing today.
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