43, 1984, is the

locus classicus

for the view that Mendelian genetics cannot be reduced to molecular genetics. Alternative perspectives on reductionism are found in Sahotra Sarkar’s

Genetics and Reductionism (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and Ken Waters’s 'Molecular genetics’, in the online

Stanford Encyclopedia of

. The gene concept is examined at length by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Muller-Wille in the article 'Gene’ in the online

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , and in their book

The Gene (University of Chicago Press, 2018). The idea of genetic information is defended by John Maynard Smith in 'The concept of information in biology’,

67, 2000; it is critiqued by Paul Griffiths in 'Genetic information: a metaphor in search of a theory’,

68, 2001; and by Sahotra Sarkar in 'Decoding coding: information and DNA’, in his

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