Deleuze and West-Eberhard: The Virtual Status of “Unexpressed Genetic Variation”

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In this paper I try to bring together two contexts in which the term “gene” is used. Perhaps this is overly hasty. But I’m trying to bring a term from an evolutionary context (“unexpressed genetic variation”) together with one from a developmental context (“constructed functional gene”)

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