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Conrad Hal Waddington

British biologist who introduced the epigenetic landscape metaphor in the 1950s to conceptualize embryonic development as a topographical process shaped by gene interactions, predating modern understanding of gene regulatory networks.

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How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own.

C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his visionary ideas. The post How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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