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    Challenges→Despite publicly disavowing genetic determinism, biologists often implicitly adhere to a weaker form of genetic primacy, holding that traits are primarily (even if not wholly) genetic.

    Developmental systems theorists like Susan Oyama have shown that gene-environment asymmetries in biological practice dissolve under a fully symmetric developmental systems ontology.

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    Biological practice(as referring to how biologists actually conduct their work)
    The actual methods and assumptions that scientists use when studying living things in real-world research.
    Developmental systems theory(in biology and philosophy of science)
    A scientific approach that explains how living things develop by looking at how genes, environment, and other factors all work together rather than genes alone.
    Gene-environment asymmetries(as what developmental systems theory challenges)
    The common belief that genes are more important or fundamental than environmental factors in shaping living things, treating them as unequal forces.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.

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    Susan Oyama(as a key figure in developmental systems theory)
    A biologist and philosopher who challenged the traditional idea that genes are the primary force shaping how organisms develop, arguing instead that environment and genes work together equally.
    Symmetric(describes two agents in the same informational position)
    Perfectly matched or identical in all relevant ways; having the same structure or properties.

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