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Developmental Narratives: How We Think that Organisms Use Genetic and Epigenetic Informationtanding. Are our bodies essentially products of our genes, biomachines produced by a genetic program, or developmental systems which are in relation to others and responsive to the environment we live in? This chapter examines current ideas about the role of genes in development and ageing, especial

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Epigenetics, Responsiveness and Embodiment conception of DNA has gradually built up over the ‘century of the gene’. While epigenetics is now a buzzword that can be defined in at least five ways, the author does not want to discuss the pros and cons of the different usages, since the differences do not matter much for the context of the ‘de-

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