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Conflict between the idea of natural selection and the idea of the uniqueness of the gene does not seem too near to a solution yet.
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SALISBURY, F. Natural Selection and the Complexity of the Gene. Nature 224, 342–343 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224342a0
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