The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington's biology.

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Waddington is usually acknowledged as a biologist who proposed a more subtle concept of environment than the one generally in currency during the rise of the Modern Synthesis. As such, he was among the few scientists in the mid-twentieth century to develop an elaborated concept of the environment that would fully embrace its constructive role both in development and evolution. Yet, on close inspection, there is...

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