TY - JOUR
AB - 640 BOOK REVIEWS Keller aims less to supply the new concepts and words than contributions of chromatin and the cytoplasm, and urges new to clear intellectual space for their arrival. Her main target for talk of a `developmental programme', distributed throughout removal is the concept of the gene. According to Keller, that the fertilized egg. The fourth chapter makes a similarly anti- reductionist concept dominated the science of heredity in the reductionist case against regarding genes as controlling the twentieth century, her `century of the gene'. In each of her four regulation of development. When genes in the developing chapters, she aims to show how a certain feature of the concept organism are `knocked out' experimentally, the organism often emerged, and how recent discoveries about heredity, develop- will develop just ®ne, thanks to the existence of lots of other ment and evolution have stretched the concept to its limits, genes capable of performing the same function. Such massive indeed beyond them. Although she declares the concept redundancy leads Keller to speculate that perhaps what is defunct, she predicts that the word `gene' will live on, for selected is not so much the gene or the organism but the reasons 
TI - The Origin, Expansion and Demize of Plant Species
JF - Heredity
DO - 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2001.0946d.x
DA - 2001-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/the-origin-expansion-and-demize-of-plant-species-B0L3bzSCXD
SP - 640
EP - 640
VL - 86
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -