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Does Collective Genetic Regulation exist?

Molecular Networks 2021-07-01 v1 Populations and Evolution

Abstract

Does regulation in the genome use collective behavior, similar to the way the brain or deep neural networks operate? Here I make the case for why having a genomic network capable of a high level of computation would be strongly selected for, and suggest how it might arise from biochemical processes that succeed in regulating in a collective manner, very different than the usual way we think about genetic regulation.

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@article{arxiv.2106.15732,
  title  = {Does Collective Genetic Regulation exist?},
  author = {J. M. Deutsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15732},
  year   = {2021}
}

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