epigenics

Definitions

The way in which something develops as a result of its environment.

uncountable

Examples

“They too hoped to guide⟳ 20th century biology into the mainstream of hard-nosed science, but embryologists saw⟳ the gene as a disguised homunculus and rejected it. They returned to epigenics and promoted it as rival to the theory of the gene.”

“Epigenics at its most radical said that anything could become⟳ anything else: development was just a matter⟳ of physics, chemical fluxes, and environmental manipulation.”

“Aristotle is saddled with responsibility for the most ancient verison of epigenics, namely that embryos arise⟳ de novo from totally unformed matter⟳ in each generation.”

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