TY - JOUR
AU - Jonathan, Hodgkin
AB -  A recent television series in the UK celebrates the genetic diversity of human life. My graduate adviser, Sydney Brenner, used to exclaim ‘Revenons à nos mutants!’ as he sat down at the bench to search for yet more genetic variants of C. elegans . Those mutants won him a Nobel Prize, some thirty years later. Armand Leroi is another aficionado of C. elegans mutants, but he decided to write a book—and then to make a television series—on mutants of humanity, not of worms. He says at the beginning and end of the series: “We are all mutants, but some of us are more mutant than others.” This is a good slogan, and very proper for embracing humanity as a whole. He backs it up with an aphorism from Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, pioneer of teratology, who proclaimed: “There are no monsters and Nature is one.” What Geoffroy meant was that abnormalities provide clues to normal processes, and hence are invaluable to science, if they can be properly understood. But monsters and mutants are, undeniably, fascinating in their own right. 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020262.g001 Leroi A, presenter (2004) Human Mutants [three-part television series]. United Kingdom: Channel 4. Broadcast June 2004 Mutants , the 
TI - Mutants on the Small Screen
JF - PLoS Biology
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020262
DA - 2004-08-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/public-library-of-science-plos-journal/mutants-on-the-small-screen-9aYyWbk47U
VL - 2
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -