Inherited Representations are Read in Development

1 Introduction; 2 Inherited Representations; 3 Reading Genetic Representations: 3.1 Do genes carry correlational information? 4 Selection Between Genetic and Environmental Information: 4.1 Modelling; 4.2 Empirical applications; 4.3 Maternal effects; 5 Genetic Representation and the Genome: 5.1 Information capacity of organisms' genomes; 5.2 Many amino acids, few nucleotides; 5.3 A function of sex; 6 Explaining Further Aspects of Development: 6.1 Canalization against environmental variation; 6.2 An informational function for the nuclear membrane? 7 Conclusion.