From representational preformationism to the epigenesis of openness to the world? Reflections on a new vision of the organism

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 981, Issue , 2002, Pages 219-229

  Moss, Lenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenesis; Evolutionary origins; Preformationism

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; HISTONE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENESIS; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENOME; INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0036964702     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04920.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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