What follows is just a copy-and-paste of another reply, but:
By “gene” I mean:
“Small chunk of heritable information”
http://alife.co.uk/essays/informational_genetics/
Any sufficiently long-term persistent structure persists via a copying process—and so has “genes” in this sense.
What follows is just a copy-and-paste of another reply, but:
By “gene” I mean:
“Small chunk of heritable information”
http://alife.co.uk/essays/informational_genetics/
Any sufficiently long-term persistent structure persists via a copying process—and so has “genes” in this sense.