Article ID: CBB395512753

Epigenetics: Ambiguities and Implications (2016)

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Everyone has heard of ‘epigenetics’, but the term means different things to different researchers. Four important contemporary meanings are outlined in this paper. Epigenetics in its various senses has implications for development, heredity, and evolution, and also for medicine. Concerning development, it cements the vision of a reactive genome strongly coupled to its environment. Concerning heredity, both narrowly epigenetic and broader ‘exogenetic’ systems of inheritance play important roles in the construction of phenotypes. A thoroughly epigenetic model of development and evolution was Waddington’s aim when he introduced the term ‘epigenetics’ in the 1940s, but it has taken the modern development of molecular epigenetics to realize this aim. In the final sections of the paper we briefly outline some further implications of epigenetics for medicine and for the nature/nurture debate.

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Authors & Contributors
Baedke, Jan
Faillaci, Francesca
Saulnier, Katie Michelle
Joly, Yann
Suporas, Charles
Chiapperino, Luca
Concepts
Epigenetics
Genetics
Biology
Evolution
Life sciences
Philosophy of biology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
Modern
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Russia
Latin America
Vienna (Austria)
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