Phenotype

"With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power." — Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene)

And with only a little more imagination, we can see that the gene is actually a sparkling purple unicorn, traversing Waddington's epigenetic landscape, being ridden by the ghost of Mendel, under the orders of a Zeus-like Darwin (He Himself receiving suggestions from Aristotle et al. B.C.E.), as narrated by Johannsen but spoken by Freeman, designed by D’Arcy Thompson but drawn by Haeckel, thought about by Dennett but deeply perceived by McClintock, modeled by Fisher and Galton, remodeled by Noble and Jablonka, and of course, edited…

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