rries the gene-pattern
| well protected within itself, and that, within the span of one generation,
| can look after itself.
|
| What this means is that those gene-patterns are specially likely
| to survive (and therefore to exist today) that cause to grow,
| between themselves and the dangerous world, some more or less
| elaborate mechanism for defence.  So the genes in 'Testudo'
| cause the growth of a shell;  and the genes in 'Homo' cause
| the growth of a brain.  (Ashby, 'Intro. Cybernetics' 10/5).

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