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the name that turns up whenever biology and mathematics quietly shake hands.
means a surname, most famously belonging to C.H. Waddington, the biologist who gave developmental biology its landscape metaphor and coined epigenetics.
from english surname from a place name meaning wada's settlement or the town by the ford, old english wada plus tun.
epigenetic landscapehis 1957 marble-rolling-downhill metaphor for cell fate
coined termgave us the word epigenetics in 1942
renaissance streakalso painted, wrote poetry, and studied philosophy
for instance
conrad hal waddington — scottish biologist, 1905-1975, father of epigenetics
waddington nz — small settlement, canterbury region, new zealand
waddington ny — town on the st lawrence river, founded 1811
waddington games — 1930s british board game company, made monopoly under license