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'The relation between genotypic variation and phenotypic plasticity suggests that we could consider genes as "norms of reaction" to different environments'. a bit heavy going for me, but I'm going to say the key word is 'norms'. The authors are disputing a strictly determinist account of genes. The problem, in the eyes of many, is that a norm is not really a scientific concept. Science is supposed to deal w laws
— Jul 30, 2016 09:28PM
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David M
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'On the present view, Darwin made the same mistake Marx did: he imagined that history is a theoretical domain; but what there is, in fact, is only a heterogeneity of causes and effects.' (it may be worth noting that the best Marxist historians - Hobsbawm, Deutscher, Anderson, etc - do not rely much on 'laws of history')
— Jul 31, 2016 04:49PM
David M
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Note on style: when writing a philosophical polemic, it's best to reserve one's true heights of bitchiness for the footnotes.
— Jul 31, 2016 02:14AM
