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Model Organisms and Behavioral Genetics: A Rejoinder
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2022
Abstract
In this rejoinder to the three preceding comments, I provide some additional philosophical warrant for the biomedical sciences' focus on model organisms. I then relate the inquiries on model systems to the concept of ‘deep homology’, and indicate that the issues that appear to divide my commentators and myself are in part empirical ones. I cite recent work on model organisms, and especially C. elegans that supports my views. Finally, I briefly readdress some of the issues raised by Developmental Systems Theory.
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