Some Broader Evolutionary Issues Which Emerge from Contemporary Molecular Biological Data

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984:129 - 144 (1984)
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The genome contains elements which are most easily understood as the products of selection operating at the level of the genome, without regard to phenotypic effect. The properties of such elements, and more general implications of molecular biological data, are discussed.

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