Special Episode: Evolution and Genetics
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Genes as Blanders - Is That a Good Idea?
The idea of genes as blueprints encapsulates much of what's wrong about our understanding of how genotypes map on to phenotypes. Genes and genomes are sort of very loosely like a 1D set of information that's mapped onto, let's say, a 4D organism. And phenotypes are changing all the time during the course of an organism's lifetime. So if we built the same blueprint house in Missoula, Montana, where I live, and I send it to you and you built it in Melbourne there, those environments are different. Not how blueprints actually work.
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