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Development as explanation: Understanding phenotypic stability and variability after the failure of genetic determinism.
Progress in biophysics and molecular biology - 1 Mar 2023
Moore David S, Lickliter Robert
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In the predominately gene-centered view of 20th century biology, the relationship between genotype and phenotype was essentially a relationship between cause and effect, between a plan and a product. Abandoning the idea of genes as inherited instructions or blueprints for phenotypes raises the question of how to best account for observed phenotypic stability and variability within and across generations of a...
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