The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves NYT Par :Carl Zimmer 8 novembre 2025 à 04:36 “The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. © Science SourceThe x-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin in 1952 that assisted James Watson and Francis Crick in their discovery of the structure of DNA.