God playing dice, revisited: determinism and indeterminism in studies of stochastic phenotypic variation.

doi:10.1042/ETLS20210285

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God playing dice, revisited: determinism and indeterminism in studies of stochastic phenotypic variation.

Emerging topics in life sciences - 9 Sept 2022

Lajus Dmitry

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Empirical studies of phenotypic variation show that genetic and environmental heterogeneity account for only part of it. Usually, the magnitude of the residual variation is comparable with that of the genetic component, while notably exceeding the magnitude of the environmental component. This can be interpreted in two ways. A deterministic interpretation associates it with artifacts such as measurement error and...

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Biological Variation, Population
Phenotype

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PMID: 35621351
DOI: 10.1042/ETLS20210285

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