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Massimo Pigliucci on the demise of the genetic blueprint metaphor

Massimo Pigliucci of Rationally Speaking has a short post up on the many problems with “the idea that the DNA sequence of an organism’s genome is analogous to a computer ‘program,’ and that it provides the ‘blueprint’ for building said organism.”
He then goes on to list the many ways in which this idea of ‘mapping’ [...]

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