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Jun 5, 2018 · When Richard Dawkins published his book on the Extended Phenotype (EP) in 1982 (The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene), it was received as an interesting but relatively minor addition to evolutionary theory primarily confined to a few poster child examples such as beaver dams and termite nests. The interest in the EP quickly ...
- Philip Hunter
- 10.15252/embr.201846477
- 2018
- EMBO Rep. 2018 Jul; 19(7): e46477.
The book’s main idea is that phenotype should not be limited to biological processes such as protein biosynthesis or tissue growth, but extended to include all effects that a gene has on its environment, inside or outside the body of the individual organism.
- Richard Dawkins
- 1982
Jun 5, 2018 · Science & Society. 5 June 2018. The revival of the extended phenotype: After more than 30 years, Dawkins’ Extended Phenotype hypothesis is enriching evolutionary biology and inspiring potential applications. Philip Hunter Author Information. EMBO rep. ( 2018) 19: e46477. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201846477.
- Philip Hunter
- 2018
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The Extended Phenotype refers to phenotypes as manifestations of genetic variation that confer differential survival to any organisms whose genes contribute to that variation. Thus phenotypes can be physical characteristics of those organisms or consequences of their behaviour such as bowerbirds building bowers, and those phenotypes may be ...
Mar 1, 2009 · In his book, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, Dawkins observed that, “ [the extended phenotype] so far changes the way we see animals and plants that it may cause us to think of testable hypotheses that we would otherwise never have dreamed of.”
The Long Reach of the Gene Year published: 1982 Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-0-19-878891-1 One of the most outstanding intelligences in modern British science.
Sep 14, 2016 · The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene. Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press, Sep 14, 2016 - Science - 284 pages. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized...
