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Waddington is the father of Theoretical Biology and many concepts that are now the common currency of Biology-based language were coined by him, such as channelling, robustness or epigenetics. Waddington believes it is essential to work on a theory of the phenotype. The deployment of genotype to give rise to phenotype brings into play many of the laws required to formulate a theory of life. In recent times, Waddington is the best example of an advocate of cell theory; however, he was not in favour of a gene-centred approach to the study of biological evolution.
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Moya, A. (2015). Concepts for a Theoretical Biology. In: The Calculus of Life. SpringerBriefs in Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16970-5_4
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