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Positional Information and the Measurement of Specificity
Philosophy of Science 87 (5):1061-1072 (2020)
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Philosophical discussions of information and specificity in biology are now commonplace, but no consensus exists about whether the privileging of genetic causation in investigation and explanation...Author's Profile
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