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  1. This is not a new metaphor. At Waddington’s 50 birthday party, held at the Genetics Institute at Edinburgh University in 1955, a pinball machine was used to represent the epigenetic landscape.

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Hall, B.K. From Marshalling Yards to Landscapes to Triangles to Morphospace. Evol Biol 35, 97–99 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-008-9021-z

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