Notes on “The Selfish Gene” Chapter Three: Immortal Coils
January 4, 2008
In which Dawkins discusses further what happens during replication, how best to define a ‘gene’ or ‘chromosome’ and how inheritance and selection works.
p28: The structure of a cistron, with its beginning and end markers, will be familiar to anyone who’s studied prehistoric computing theory: files were often stored on magnetic tape in this way, one […]
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