Genetic Information: A Metaphor In Search of a Theory
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- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 68 (3) , 394-412
- https://doi.org/10.1086/392891
Abstract
John Maynard Smith has defended against philosophical criticism the view that developmental biology is the study of the expression of information encoded in the genes by natural selection. However,...Keywords
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