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Genes, genomes, and developmental process

Taylor J, Weiss SM, Marshall PJ

The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2023

Abstract

The view advanced by Madole & Harden falls back on the dogma of a gene as a DNA sequence that codes for a fixed product with an invariant function regardless of temporal and spatial contexts. This outdated perspective entrenches the metaphor of genes as static units of information and glosses over developmental complexities.

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