Ironically (or not) this section (on mobile anyway) seems to hyphenate way too much, with three lines in a row and two lines in a row ending in a hyphen (5/8 total lines in the paragraph).
I first encountered Borges in high school, reading “The House of Asterion” as an assignment. Probably not one of his most well known short stories, but I would still recommend it.
Yeah, when I saw the original comment I tried to find the source of the term but wasn't able to find it.
To me it sounds like medical genetics terminology (known for terms like "penetrance", "allele", "epistasis", "locus") whereas I'm a molecular biologist/biophysicist, which has far more precise ways of describing the underlying physical model.
I just realized that the publication comes from Will Ratcliff’s group, working on the evolution of multicelullarity. An entry was posted here with a podcast featuring him not long ago, in case you’re curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43464770
Especially because there's a thing called a gene drive, and i thought this was a corresponding thing for whole genome duplication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive
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