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Hierarchical Approaches to Genome Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle*
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Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CanadaB3H 4H7
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In fact, nearly every scientist who has written on the general subject of evolution has felt compelled to show how deftly he can skate toward the abyss of teleology without falling in.

J.H. Campbell (1985), 163

Molecular biology has as its primary objective the elucidation of the coupling between genotype and phenotype. This goal has so far been pursued within a neoDarwinian theoretical framework which is relatively limited. Within this framework we can indeed understand remarkably well the mechanisms of replication and expression of genes and the means by which replication and expression are regulated in cells; we know how genotype determines phenotype at the molecular level, in single cells. We are also close to an understanding of the relationship between genes and development in muticellular animals and plants.

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume , Volume 14: Philosophy & Biology , 1988 , pp. 101 - 133
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Copyright © The Authors 1988

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