"Denis Noble, in his eloquent book The Music of Life, uses musical metaphors to show the interplay among genes, multicellular harmonies, organs and systems in the body, and the brain. 2 In his view, genes don’t “do” anything, and they don’t “determine” things, but rather they set certain parameters that constrain the dance. In this framework, the action is at the physiological level, and behaviors are emergent properties that come out differently depending on the way the physiological dance plays out."

"Denis Noble, in his eloquent book The Music of Life, uses musical metaphors to show the interplay among genes, multicellular harmonies, organs and systems in the body, and the brain. 2 In his view, genes don’t “do” anything, and they don’t “determine” things, but rather they set certain parameters that constrain the dance. In this framework, the action is at the physiological level, and behaviors are emergent properties that come out differently depending on the way the physiological dance plays out."