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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Volume 78, Issue 1, Pages 60-82Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/658110
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- Oxford University
- James Martin 21st Century School
- Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics
- Somerville College, University of Oxford
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Developmental systems theory (DST) is often dismissed on the basis that the causal indispensability of nongenetic factors in evolution and development has long been appreciated. A reformulation makes a more substantive claim: that the special role played by genes is also played by some (but not all) nongenetic resources. That special role can be captured by Shea's 'inherited representation'. Formulating DST as the claim that there are nongenetic inherited representations turns it into a striking, empirically testable hypothesis. DST's characteristic rejection of a gene versus environment dichotomy is preserved but without dissolving into an interactionist casual soup, as some have alleged.
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