Limited Extended Inheritance
Résumé
This essay addresses the question of the extension of biological inheritance in the light of the fact that organisms inherit much more than DNA. Starting from recent proposals to reconceive the concept of biological inheritance, I show that one of the main assumptions in the literature is simply taken for granted without providing any evidence or argument to support it. The analysis of four distinctions!and of the lessons drawn from them allows me to propose a redefinition of inheritance, which brings to the fore its privileged link with reproduction and the specific theoretical role of this concept in biology.
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