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In view of the considerable time and effort we have devoted to the preparation of this monograph, and the hope that it is both comprehensive and comprehensible, we now expose our ideas as to where research efforts should be concentrated. There follows a listing and brief discussion of four research programs that, in our view, are both feasible and likely to be most rewarding. The listing is not in any order of priority.
VV: What have you learned from science.
EC: Only one thing: that one ought to wash one’s hands before touching nature.
—Erwin Chargaff, Heraclitean Fire
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Albright, J.F., Albright, J.W. (2003). Epilogue. In: Aging, Immunity, and Infection. Infectious Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-402-3_6
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