Abstract
Biological genes are argued to have an infinite range of interaction, in agreement with the original Kauffman model and in disagreement with recent modifications which put them on a lattice with nearest neighbor interaction.
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Keller, U., Thomas, B. & Pohley, H.J. Comment on a genetic application of square-lattice Kauffman models. J Stat Phys 52, 1129–1132 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019744
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