MANY GENES AGO
F or as long as we can remember, time travel has always been a thing of machines. The transtemporal nature of time machines in particular has been studied for its role in exploring the duality of time. Science has probed the possibility of time reversal with the help of general relativity. Thanks to Einstein, who made it possible for us to go back in time. But what about GENES ? Do they have a playback button? Do they ever think, "Nay, let's start from scratch!"? Maybe. Maybe not. DE-EVOLUTION ( A case of genetic nostalgia ) The idea that mutations could be reversed and genes could travel back in time was born in the 19th century, when paleontologists Hyatt and Eigenmann advocated that genes could evolve backwards in time to assume more primitive architecture and machinery. In 1893, zoologist Willhelm Haacke coined the term "orthogenesis" which believes that genes are driven to obtain a specific level of biological complexity. This directional progress of one...
