cmike: "Он не обсуждает вопрос, что такое гены (точнее, говорит, что гены — это "что-нибудь")."
Открываем книжку Richard Dawkins. The selfish gene. 30th anniversary edition. Oxford University Press, 2006, и читаем на стр.32:
"The definition* I want to use comes from G.C.Williams. A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection. In the words of the previous chapter, a gene is a replicator with high copying-fidelity. Copying-fidelity is another way of saying longevity-in-the-form-of-copies and I shall abbreviate this simply to longevity. The definition will take some justifying**" ___ * гена ** этому justifying посвящены следующие 4 страницы.
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Date: 2012-01-09 12:46 am (UTC)Открываем книжку Richard Dawkins. The selfish gene. 30th anniversary edition. Oxford University Press, 2006, и читаем на стр.32:
"The definition* I want to use comes from G.C.Williams. A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection. In the words of the previous chapter, a gene is a replicator with high copying-fidelity. Copying-fidelity is another way of saying longevity-in-the-form-of-copies and I shall abbreviate this simply to longevity. The definition will take some justifying**"
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* гена
** этому justifying посвящены следующие 4 страницы.
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