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[[If you make yourself really big, you can internalise everything]]. | [[If you make yourself really big, you can internalise everything]]. | ||
Compare with the management [[consultant’s reverie]]: “If you make yourself really small, you can externalise nearly everything.” | |||
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The main idea — popularized by Richard Dawkins — is that phenotype should not be limited to biological processes, but should include all effects that a gene has on its environment, inside or outside the body of the individual organism. so a beaver’s dam is an extended phenotype.
If you make yourself really big, you can internalise everything.
Compare with the management consultant’s reverie: “If you make yourself really small, you can externalise nearly everything.”