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'Frankenstein' predicted concept key to modern biology: study

Reuters: Science - Posted: October 28th, 2016, 12:18pm UTC

BOSTON (Reuters) - Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" foreshadowed a key concept in evolutionary biology formally defined by scientists a century after the man-made monster shambled across the pages of the 19th century novel, an academic study published on Friday found.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=u9ADlfRdvnM:3eBhvXEV4WQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=u9ADlfRdvnM:3eBhvXEV4WQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=u9ADlfRdvnM:3eBhvXEV4WQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=u9ADlfRdvnM:3eBhvXEV4WQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=u9ADlfRdvnM:3eBhvXEV4WQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/u9ADlfRdvnM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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