Ignorance is bliss

摘要

Biologists are notoriously preoccupied with how and why things happen."How" questions address the mechanisms by which a biological or disease process comes about. "Why" questions query the evolutionary origins of the process under investigation. However, like good detectives, biologists must first define where a given process is initiated. Without knowing the "where" of things, it would be quite difficult, if not impossible, to unfold the answers to "how" and "why" questions