[Pontiac]

So what controls how active genes are? Is there some other control device besides genes that we are missing? How and to what extent does that unkown device "evolve"?

I agree genetic scientist may have been missing something fundamental. Perhaps nucleic DNA may just provide the basic framework of what we are to be.

Perhaps mitochondrial DNA plays a large role in development than suspected.

[RightWhale]

genetic scientist may have been missing something fundamental.

I, too, have had this feeling for a few days. Perhaps they have the cart before the horse. They may be going down a dead-end alley.

[Ahban]

I have used an analogy of a diskette and a computer. A Comodore Amiga disk is useless in a PC. In other words, to get a baby T-Rex you not only need the genes of the T-Rex, but a momma T-Rex to bath the eggs in the right hormones (and Pheromones after laying).

With mammals, this is more critical. The mothers body and how she "reads" the DNA is just as important as what the DNA says. This is analogous to the diskette. How the computer reads those bits and bytes is just as important as what they say.