This view has deep cultural roots, but is nothing more than myth. Information regulates development. Information itself undergoes a developmental process, and therefore ontogenesis should apply to information. In order to analyze what developmental information in the chromosomes means, Oyama focuses on three phenomena common to all life processes, and manifested in the genes, i.e. constancy, change and variability. Information in the genes and information in the environment are not biologically relevant until they participate in phenotypic processes.
Form emerges through a history of interactions at many hierarchical levels.
Constancy across generations and within a population is due to interaction between genes and environment. There is no vehicle of constancy. Constancy is constructed. Change is a natural consequence of matter being inherently reactive. There is no need for an external force to explain change.