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The Role of Genes in Probabilistic Epigenesis: Rethinking the Nature of 'Nature'
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Johnston, Timothy D. – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Gilbert Gottlieb's theory of probabilistic epigenesis replaced the nature-nurture dichotomy, and similar oppositions, with an integrated account of the development of the entire behavioral phenotype. In that theory, invariant developmental outcomes cannot be identified with an organism's 'nature,' if by that term is meant a set of predetermined…
Descriptors: Genetics, Probability, Behavioral Science Research, Nature Nurture Controversy