¿Dictadura o democracia? Sobre el alcance explicativo de los genes.

This paper critically analyzes the book El ADN dictador. Lo que la genética decide por ti, written by the geneticist Miguel Pita. The book offers a radical defense of gene-centrism, which is taken to be the only available approach to the problem of causality of traits. However, gene-centrism is being challenged by developmentalism (a framework not even mentioned by Pita). This article discusses several gene-centric theses defended by the book and shows a developmentalism alternative to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]