NOTION OF PROGRESS IN SCIENCE IN KARL POPPER

Abstract

The concept of gene, as proposed in the course of the twentieth century, seems to be going through one of the most interesting and complicated times by which scientific terms sometimes go through: the review of concepts and terms on which it relies. To understand this delicate ”“ and exciting ”“ moment, we need to understand the history behind the development of the concept that is currently used in the biological sciences. For this purpose, we depart from Mendel and his solitary scientific adventure, which was only posthumously recognized for its vital contribution to the development of science, passing through the dispute of understanding the processes of heredity in the early twentieth century, the advances that allowed the passing century was called "the century of the gene" and finally reaching the progress and limits that has glimpsed after the success of the initially controversial Human Genome Project.