title: Conrad Waddington and the origin of epigenetics.
abstract: Denis Noble discusses Conrad Waddington's classic paper, "The genetic assimilation of the bithorax phenotype", published in Evolution in 1956.
authors: University of Oxford denis.noble@physiol.ox.ac.uk.
authors: Denis
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authors: Noble
mesh_terms: D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D057890:Epigenomics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype