Vernyn, George

George Vernyn was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1944. He took BS and MS degrees at the College of Engineering of the University of California in Berkeley, and studied Darwin under Professor Richard M. Eakin. He served in the US Peace Corps as a teacher in Africa, then forged a lifelong career in electronics engineering, developing automatic factory machinery for the worldwide electronics industry. He consulted to two university molecular biology laboratories, creating computerized experimentation and analytic systems. He is at his best when combining observations from separate disciplines,...