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Wiley InterScience

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Volume 36 Issue 3, Pages 383 - 393

Published Online: 7 Jan 2003

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Genomes, Gould, and Emergence
Ursula Goodenough
  1 Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Copyright 2001 by the Joint Publication Board of Zygon
KEYWORDS
embryology • emergence • Stephen J. Gould • human genome • neurogenesis

ABSTRACT

The publication of the human genome has elicited commentary to the effect that, since fewer genes were identified than anticipated, it follows that genes are less important to human biology than anticipated. The flaws in this syllogism are explained in the context of a treatise on how genomes operate and evolve and how genes function to produce embryos and brains. Most of our most cherished human traits are the result of the emergence of new properties from preexisting genetically scripted ideas, offering countless opportunities to celebrate the evolutionary process.


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10.1111/0591-2385.00369 About DOI

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