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Introduction: Matthieu Authier writes: I just read Genetic essentialism is in our genes . Here are a few papers from Kenneth Weiss about this missing heritability problem and genetic essentialism: Evol.Ant.2011 – Weiss – Seeing the forest through the gene-trees Genetics.2011 – Weiss.&.Buchanan – Is life-law-like
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