Kattarina98
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| Quote (Woodbine @ May 04 2012,11:58) | If memory serves, Richard Dawkins makes a distinction between replicators and reproducers.
A DNA molecule, he points out, is a replicator because it produces an exact copy of itself (under normal circumstances). Organisms cannot achieve this level of copying fidelity and so are termed 'reproducers'.
I'm buggered if I can remember in which of his books I read it, though....... ??? |
Joe, I'm sorry I made fun of you. Your were right, vindicated by Richard Dawkins, no less.
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Barry Arrington is a bitch.
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