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fly Hom genes. Everywhere these genes seemed to play the same role: that of
defining the relative position of the cells along the anteroposterior axis of the
animal. . . . That the genes that build the human body could be the same as those
that direct the making of the body of a fly—now there was something unthink-
able! Unthinkable, that is, that the same genetic framework might underlie
processes as dissimilar as those involved in the development of these two organ-
isms!” (ibid., 92-93).
36. On the role of core metaphors, see Hans Blumenberg,
Die Lesbarkeit der
Welt
(Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1981).
37. Freud,
Civilization
, 112.
38. Ibid., 111.
39. The
Oxford English Dictionary
tells a more complicated story. The first
mention is in French in the twelfth century. Its first usage then moves into Middle
English. Its usage in modern English is in the seventeenth century with
Shakespeare and Milton.
40. Weber,
Protestant Ethic
, 182-183.
41. Brenner, “The End,” 2174.
