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C.H. Waddington's differences with the creators of the modern evolutionary synthesis: a tale of two genes.
History and philosophy of the life sciences - 8 Aug 2017
Bard Jonathan B L
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In 2011, Peterson suggested that the main reason why C.H. Waddington was essentially ignored by the framers of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1950s was because they were Cartesian reductionists and mathematical population geneticists while he was a Whiteheadian organicist and experimental geneticist who worked with Drosophila. This paper suggests a further reason that can only be seen now. The former...
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