Heuristic reductionism and the relative significance of epigenetic inheritance in evolution

Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 14-40

  Griesemer, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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