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extended phenotype

noun

Etymology

Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1982 in his book The Extended Phenotype.

Definitions

  1. The phenotype extended to include effects that genes have on their environment. (ex.

    The phenotype extended to include effects that genes have on their environment. (ex.: beaver dams, spider webs, ant colonies, a caddis fly's protective cases, etc.)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for extended phenotype. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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