Meaning of epigenics | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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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