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Genes, genomes, and developmental process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2023

Jebediah Taylor Open the ORCID record for Jebediah Taylor [Opens in a new window] ,
Staci Meredith Weiss  and
Peter J. Marshall
Jebediah Taylor
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA jebt@umich.edu
Staci Meredith Weiss
Affiliation:
Perinatal Imaging Partnership, Rosie Maternity Hospital, Cambridge, UK smw95@cam.ac.uk https://www.repro.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-staci-meredith-weiss Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Peter J. Marshall
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA peter.marshall@temple.edu https://sites.temple.edu/peterjmarshall/
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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 This outdated perspective entrenches the metaphor of genes as static units of information and glosses over developmental complexities.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e204
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