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work_i4edga7dkreojlngg4suow5d5m	Paul E. Griffiths	Genetic Information: A Metaphor in Search of a Theory	2001	20	.pdf	application/pdf	8653	588	53	John Maynard Smith has defended against philosophical criticism the view that developmental biology is the study of the expression of information encoded in the genes by However, like other naturalistic concepts of information, this "teleosemantic" concept is equally applicable to many non-genetic factors in development. Maynard Smith also fails to show that developmental biology is concerned with teleosemantic information. information in developmental biology is equally applicable to genetic and which genes contain developmental information, but methylation patterns The view that genes are distinguished from other factors by being the locus of developmental information is biologically illegitimate. Maynard Smith proposes to analyze the intentionality of genetic information using teleosemantics, the philosophical program of reducing meaning to biological function (teleology) and then reducing teleology to natural selection. Maynard-Smith, are well aware of the role of non-genetic factors in development and have a standard strategy for discounting them.	./cache/work_i4edga7dkreojlngg4suow5d5m.pdf	./txt/work_i4edga7dkreojlngg4suow5d5m.txt